Sentences with phrase «public policy professor»

Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»

In his 2015 book «Our Kids,» Harvard public policy professor Robert Putnam details how better off families and communities provide what he calls «air bags» for their children — insulating them from shocks, helping them bounce back when they fall.

UC Berkeley public policy professor David Kirp, a longtime education scholar, wrote in a recent New York Times op - ed piece titled «Rage against the Common Core» that «in states where the opposition is passionate and powerful, it will take a herculean effort to get the standards back on track.»

President Barack Obama has the potential to be an extremely influential opinionmaker on controversial education policy issues according to a new survey conducted by Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Martin West, Harvard Kennedy School Professor Paul Peterson, and Harris School of Public Policy Professor William Howell.

In the heart of the meltdown in late 2008, Harvard University economics and public policy professor Kenneth Rogoff wrote in the Guardian that a «sudden burst of moderate inflation would be extremely helpful in unwinding today's epic debt morass.»

That's the take - home message from a recent talk by UC Berkley economist and public policy professor Jesse Rothstein who came to SFU to present his latest research on using standardized -LSB-...]

In a new article for Education Next, Boston College public policy professor R. Shep Melnick details why the Department of Education should undertake a thorough reexamination of Title IX policy — and why multiple professional and civil rights groups agree that it's time for change.

Harvard Kennedy School of Government public policy professor Christopher Avery, who recently co-authored a study on the lack of high - achieving low - income students at top schools, said that even at selective institutions, «diverse» still does not imply total representation.

This analysis at The Conversation by Australian National University Public Policy Professor Peter Whiteford says it is worrying that the budget papers do not identify the costs of the drug testing proposal nor the expected savings, concluding that the proposal is symbolic, rather than designed to have a positive impact.

«The foreign buyer tax will have helped, and there is zero doubt about that,» says Joshua Gordon, public policy professor at Simon Fraser University and a tax supporter.

Harvard public policy professor and behavioral economist Iris Bohnet says one solution to solving this issue is «micro-sponsorship,» which is the act of advocating for a colleague who has been wronged.

«One way to think about it is you can survive a scandal,» says John Walsh, a public policy professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Eileen Chou, a public policy professor at the University of Virginia, and her collaborators began by analyzing a data set of 33,720 U.S. households and found that those with higher levels of unemployment were more likely to purchase over-the-counter painkillers.

«In the summer issue of the journal Education Next, Bruce Fuller, an education and public policy professor at the University of California at Berkeley, reveals how renegade teacher groups outbid even the best charter organizations to run underperforming L.A. schools their way.»

He began his career in academe as a public policy professor.

It really created a capacity to change that did not exist, and that's quite significant,» Joseph Viteritti, a public policy professor at Hunter College in New York and lead editor of the book «When Mayors Take Charge,» said of New York's 10 - year - old experiment with mayoral control.

«Across the United States, school districts have relied on this template to build strong systems that provide a solid education for their students, and the model makes great sense for Puerto Rico as well,» said David Kirp, a public policy professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

«What climate change is doing is basically devaluing all the real estate south of the United States and making the whole planet less productive,» said study co-author Solomon Hsiang, an economist and public policy professor at the University of California Berkeley.

Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a prominent policy adviser for the Chinese government, has also advocated for China to aim for peaking carbon emissions in 2030.

Hu Angang, a public policy professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a prominent policy adviser for the Chinese government, has advocated for China to aim for a peaking of carbon emissions in 2030, while Read the full story

When it comes to preventing conflict, said David Keith, a Harvard scientist and public policy professor, the challenge can be overstated.

«Americans are getting the wrong signal from year - round weather about whether they should be concerned about climate change,» said study lead author Patrick Egan, a public policy professor at New York University.

On the other hand, he's a public policy professor with two degrees from Harvard.