Sentences with word «wonk»

Not sure which book to buy the educator or education policy wonk in your life?

Climate policy wonks in the UK spent most of 2017 waiting for the government's Clean Growth Strategy.

And here's a sampling of some of the insult hurling that's going on around the blogosphere, via Wonk Room:

But Eden, a longtime education policy wonk who spent time working for Rick Hess at the American Enterprise Institute before landing at Manhattan Institute (and who still co-writes pieces with Hess on occasion), can't justify why he ran with this shoddy work.

They will have to justify, at least within the small community of wonks who follow this stuff, what other fundamental elements in their forecast out to 2020 were changed to match the 2020 number.

(For wonks only: regulated financial institutions should be matching assets versus liabilities as their most aggressive posture.

Brad Plumer has a post at Wonk Blog with more helpful details on the underlying Headwaters Economics analysis.

But the argument that I found most compelling was one made by wonks Matthew Joseph, Brian Kisida and Travis Pillow: that the law could catalyze efforts to overhaul state and local school finance systems.

It's a great example of what climate wonks do worst.

Every two years, education policy wonks like me wait with bated breath for the release of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

As energy wonks across the country gear up for the release of the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) International Energy Outlook (IEO), we here at Oil Change International wanted to be sure everyone is on the same page as we read over the EIA's analysis.

Guessing who Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney might pick to be his running mate is one of the most popular parlor games among political wonks at the moment.

The liberal think tank that hired me focused on state issues, so I had nothing to do with the project that was consuming D.C. wonks at the time: a once - a-decade reauthorization of the mammoth federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act that would become the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

I suspect it's a «picture window» gone awry; we'll see less of this type of thing as wonks tame the technology.

Over at David Harlow's HealthBlawg there's an equally enlightening health and policy roundup: the Tax Day edition of Health Wonk Review, which covers everything from student health insurance to HITECH to individual mandates.

Jeff Clark, Senior Precious Metals Analyst, GoldSilver APR 30, 2018 For data wonks like me, the annual Yearbooks from various gold and silver consultancies make for fun reading.

At an education policy forum held earlier today by the Manhattan Institute, the think tank's lead wonk on school reform (and protégé of Common Core opponent Jay P. Greene), Marcus Winters expressed concern that Common Core's standards may not remain high quality.

One controversial feature is what policy wonks call «conditionality»: making eligibility conditional on some prescribed activity (usually) related to work.

[Download is for wonks only, I will summarize.]

The second halfâ $» a treatise on global economicsâ $» is best left to policy wonks with insomnia.

She first became known to Westminster watchers as a leading light in wonk world, with jobs at Policy Exchange and the Institute of Economic Affairs.

We see several fixes for media data and general connection wonk when using Bluetooth in your ride.

That would be a mistake because the Oregon study indicates that policies developed by conservative wonks might be the way to go, and that adopting those policies could expand the appeal of the Republicans.

When wonks say science they are often proposing a word problem something like this: Teaching Practice A yields student success 88 % of the time.

It should thrill cinephiles and tech wonks in equal measure... Pretty much every frame of the film is packed with vivid, contrasting colors, and one of the strengths of the high - def version is how fixed and solid the colors are... Film grain, a bedbug of certain high - def advocates, is spectacularly intact... Indeed, Chungking Express is one of those films that thoroughly vindicates something film preservationist Robert Harris once said to me: «The grain is the picture.»

Unlike most SkS authors, I am not a climate science wonk and therefore am not able to respond to your question.

The Cocktail Wonk blog is where Matt Pietrek shares his passion about all things drinking related, be they spirits, cocktails, bars, mixology, tiki, and spirited history.

A possible political career for Sandberg has been mentioned a lot before, too — especially since she has been a Washington wonk before (she worked as chief of staff to former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers in the last Clinton administration before moving to Silicon Valley to work at Google).

There's a good chance that you'll ultimately see a congressional agenda — championed by the conservative policy - wonk wing of the GOP — competing with the Trump agenda.

As a side point, perhaps interesting to monetary wonks here at OTE, the title's insistence on the 1993 vintage of the Taylor rule is out of step with much research on the variables, values, and coefficients that would go into such a rule today.

I am one of many finance wonks who has studied dividends for years and have come to conclude that dividends are «sticky» because companies that start paying dividends usually continue to do so.

She throws them a bit of Olympics because it's the sort of thing political wonks think normal people like (and they're probably right).

We've recently witnessed a spate of new books authored by policy wonks which aim to re-examine the mission of the university in the United States and whether we need to «unbundle» how we educate students.

Political wonks across the state were anxiously awaiting the release of the new senate and assembly district maps for the past few weeks.

Wonks love national standards for solving wonky problems, like the downward pressure on standards and the incomparability of states» test results under No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

And apparently, the policy wonks over at the Brookings Institution also think the student loan program is producing a profit for the federal government.

This, in turn, points out a reality that neither the Obama Administration nor Beltway wonks such as Petrilli fail to admit: That No Child has been the single - biggest advance in education policy, both at the federal level and among states and local governments, since the Defense Education Act of 1958.

«One thing we do know from our research is that parents are less interested in these data than policymakers, researchers and think tank wonks.

If you're a real wonk, you can find a list of all activity codes and technical definitions on the NIH Web site (PDF document).

Here are the outlines of a theory of politics I think many wonks share.

Mr Mitter may disappoint military wonks hoping for a blow - by - blow account of every skirmish.

Now transportation wonks are taking a traffic lane to expand that park with a pop - up ped and bike lane.

He had been looking for a bioinformatician — a «computer wonk» — who could explain the more mathematical aspects of biochemistry in a way that would interest those at the bench.

The Labour Party is the party of the public sector white - collar worker, the apparatchik, the politics wonk who's never done a hand's turn of proper work in their life and the media luvvie.

At least a few people think a lasting boost in the regular appropriations for some science agencies is a real possibility, according to a well - informed Washington observer we'll call Polly C. Wonk.