Sentences with phrase «wonks like»

How is it that activists and policy wonks like me can get the message across to civil society that their governments will have no interest in doing anything until something gets shoved down their throat by the people who elect them?

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

Other Republican education wonks like Sen. Marco Rubio (R - Fla.)

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.

Conservative wonks like to dangle images of companies taking advantage of the big new influx of funds to build factories and hire workers, because that paints an appealing picture of what the strategy amounts to.

Not exact matches

Wonks and most politicians talk about immigration policy like it's a labor - market policy.

Imagine him like one of the adults from Charlie Brown, making unintelligible WONK WONK WONK noises.

Kevin Bai and Xuan «Joe» Zhou at Kettering University work in labs and in battery industry research, but they talk like car shoppers than laboratory wonks.

Floyd and Trubisky complaints were generally draft value wonks who don't like trading up in exchange for capital.

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).

Policy wonks do like their big words!»

Again, if you had actually been at the meeting and interviewed those members present, you would find most were not political wonks, but local community activists, community board members, PTA members, green advocates, housing advocates, and the like.

Social media strategists like myself are spending more and more time wearing «data wonk» as our self - identity, and at times it can all be overwhelming.

So when I hear a candidate talk like a policy wonk, I think, «Yeah.»

Like former Senator Adetunmbi, the other lead speakers, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, famed public intellectual and founding vice-chancellor of the Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State (the South West critique) and Dr. Charles Akinola (who as director - general, Osun Office of Economic Development and Partnerships, is the policy wonk strutting the Osun safety - net programmes), discharged themselves creditably.

New York League of Conservation Voters has a helpful explanation of how it works and what it might look like — even if you aren't an energy wonk, it's a pretty interesting read.

It starts with what the people want our democracy to look like, not what Westminster wonks and party hacks think will wrong - foot the opposition.

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George Church, director of Harvard's Center for Medical Genetics and a synthetic biology policy wonk, feels that synthetic biologists ought to be under government surveillance — and if they don't like it, they should pick another field.

It's less Philip K. Dick than Medgar Evers) and its attempts to pull in some literary credibility with a running gimmick about Hansel & Gretel (had Spooner really read the fairytale, he would've solved the mystery a lot quicker), I, Robot plays like a tug - of - war between a smart source material and some really venal, really cynical studio wonks.

Wonks love the frisson of danger from embracing an idea that their ideological allies don't like, whether they are conservatives committed to states» rights or liberals troubled by inflexible standards.

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).

Dr. Cantrell and I began with my policy recommendations, and I started sounding like a wonk.

Certainly you can expect the likes of Manhattan Institute wonk Max Eden (who, for some reason, was testifying at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on school safety convened a month after the Parkland Massacre) to make big hay of the Maryland Republican's complaints.

Once you immerse yourself in the world of school policy (like anything else) you fall prey to becoming a wonk, and using verbage normal people might not recognize — phrases like «blended learning» or «21st century skills.»

It may seem like only a wonk would fret about any congressional resolution to void regulations for the Every Student Succeeds Act but, in fact, it may be an enormous educational detriment for close to 37,000,000 students.

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

TIME.com — The source list in Steven Brill's Class Warfare may read like the Who's Who of modern education reform, but the chapters that precede it often feel more like The Real Housewives of Policy Wonk County.

She, like many education policy wonks, has her reservations about the Common Core.

I liked them both, but I am an economic history buff, and a bit of a wonk.

I'm a rare humanities wonk who likes to play around with numbers (e.g., I'm a sabermetrician), but this is an area where if the actuaries can't figure it out, then more discretion needs to be given to those approving mortgages to guesstimate the likely DTI and probability that someone is headed for forgiveness (or even just remaining on an IBR, frankly).

They wanted these West Point alums, these Motorola vets, these IBM management science wonks to establish order over what was a vibrant, kwan - like environment... not to mention back then, pre-PC-price wars, raking in cash for Dell while skewering its competition was easier and more palpably rewarding than it is today.

He looked like every other white, middle - aged wonk in the room.

And like so many experts in so many other science fields, the IPCC climate wonks were wrong, spectacularly.

As The Josh just learned in Wayne County, Pa., the best laid plans of fractavists can get a serendipitous assist from an unlikely source — petroleum reserve engineers — like the wonks at Netherland Sewell that do estimates on proven reserves in an oil and gas field.

Many may take in the President's words, like «meaningful,» and «step forward,» and miss the details, which anyway are hard to appreciate unless you're a climate wonk or have been writing about the talks for a week.

On the surface, the architecture of ECE in California seems like a topic reserved for the state's policy wonks, but its implications for children and families underscore the need for broader attention to the subject.