Sentences with phrase «policy research»

Building an endowment is critical in establishing a strong financial foundation that supports the institute's public policy research programs.

The magnitude of the effect in reading is greater than one - half of a standard deviation — a large effect by the standards of education policy research.

If that sounds like a crisis, you're right — it's a crisis in what passes for social policy research these days.

By comparison, policy research on the topic had a modest impact on public thinking.

These revisions reflect current developments in environmental policy research.

In this role she leads a team in providing policy research support and other resources to members who are promoting educational equity in policy, advocacy, organizing and elected leader roles.

We improve lives through tax policy research and education that leads to greater economic growth and opportunity.

This is always a delicate issue, but there is little point doing policy research if the results are not fed into the debates of the day.

She emphasizes the design and implementation of research plans that answer critical policy research questions in order to improve policy, implementation, and outcomes.

The right tool can make your life insurance policy research quick, productive, and frustration - free.

For many years our team members have been firmly embedded in the global climate science, impacts and policy research community, and have been actively engaged with the climate change negotiations.

Nonetheless, she is keen to pursue policy research further.

The right tool can make your life insurance policy research quick, productive, and frustration - free.

The database is not exhaustive, but it does list information for many programs and can serve as a starting point for those interested in beginning policy research regardless of previous experience.

The turning point for me was the discovery of how theory can inform policy research and also the policy making process.

One problem with most education policy research is that the element of teacher time is missing.

By comparison, policy research on this topic had a relatively modest impact.

We improve lives through tax policy research and education that leads to greater economic growth and opportunity.

Michael M. Uhlmann is Vice President for Public Policy Research at the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation and author of Last Rights?

A landmark study published in July 2011 by the Justice Center of the Council of State Governments and the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University found that in Texas almost six out of 10 public school students were suspended or expelled at least one time between seventh and 12th grade.

The negative effects of climate change are especially pronounced in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the International Food Policy Research Institute study concluded.

Mr. Knight has served on the Boards of: the Imperial College of Science & Technology, the Ballet Rambert, Mariinsky Theatre Trust, the Royal Opera House, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Institute of International Studies at Stanford University and the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University.

Respondents as diverse as Dave Birch, director of innovation at electronic transactions advisory firm Consult Hyperion, and Jim Harper, senior fellow at public policy research organization the Cato Institute, reported confusion about the language used and the ideas employed by the report.

Published by the Education Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University in Tempe, the study compares charter schools with demographically similar traditional public schools in six states — Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin — over five years.

The Education Commission of the States, a Colorado - based education policy research center, named Gov. Phil Bryant as chair - elect.

In 2013, for example, The Mathematica Policy Research group published a multiyear study [3] of the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP), a network of charter schools with forty - one thousand students in twenty states.

The Australia Institute is an independent public policy research centre funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research.

«Community health centers have been leading the way in promoting the coordination of medical and behavioral health care, with a more integrated vision for primary health care,» said Leighton Ku, PhD, MPH, a professor of health policy and director of the Center for Health Policy Research at SPHHS.

«Boehmer - Christiansen joined the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex in 1985, working for a decade as a Research Fellow and then later as a Visiting Fellow.

Third - party research has shown EL Education's ability to improve student outcomes: For example, a study by leading research organization Mathematica Policy Research found that students in EL Education schools gained an extra seven months of learning growth in reading after three years.

Federal economic stimulus aid helped close an estimated $ 162.5 billion in budget gaps among the 50 states in 2010, the report stated, citing a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington - based policy research group.

This paper by Dr. Tim Hudson helps you understand how to successfully review educational research and know how to thoroughly investigate the study, ask probing questions, and access the fine print about how a program «improves scores» or «doubles growth» using a clear rubric and three educational research examples, including a recent Center for Educational Policy Research at Harvard University study of DreamBox Learning Math.

A 2009 report from the International Food Policy research institute estimated that 30 million children would have died in the developing world between 1970 and 2000.

«I'm not surprised this [transition] is taking a bit of time,» given the long list of appointments and issues that Juncker's dealt with in the past months, says James Wilsdon, a professor at the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

The Carsey Institute conducts policy research on vulnerable children, youth, and families and on sustainable community development.

Nathaniel Fruchter, Michael Specter, and Ben Yuan, researchers at MIT's Internet Policy Research Initiative, published a side - by - side comparison of the change.

In June, the Mathematica Policy Research study found that a merit pay pilot program for teachers that began in Chicago schools in 2006 had no effect on student achievement.

In 2016, Gierasch was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies and independent policy research centers in the U.S.

A Manhattan Institute for Policy Research report in 2012 found that Florida students who were held back for extra help made «large academic gains relative to their socially promoted peers — gains that are meaningful and sustained at least through middle school.»

Taylor points to his own free - market energy policy paper «A Guide to Nevada Energy Policy» (PDF) which he wrote for the Nevada Policy Research Institute in June, 2016.

In 2013, Stanford University and Mathematica Policy Research released results of a rigorous, randomized control study of Playworks, considered the gold standard of research.

The Mayor's article, which was included in the inaugural issue of a public - policy journal published by the conservative Wisconsin Policy Research institute, was front - page news Jan. 2 in the Milwaukee Sentinel.

A study released today by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. shows no evidence that the Chicago Teacher Advancement Program improved student math and reading tests when compared with a group of similar schools that did not use the system, Education Week reported.

He also served as a legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was an education policy research fellow at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy.

Founded in 1991, Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) is a nationally recognized research, evaluation, and technical assistance firm located in Oakland, California.