Sentences with phrase «wonks say»

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

There will be plenty of enthusiastic policy wonks saying that ESSA means you have to do this or that.

Not exact matches

So when I finally pick him out of the swarm, I'm able to drop the name of a mutual friend: «Parag Khanna sends his regards,» I say, referring to the foreign - policy wonk and author.

My father, citing an argument raised by wonk - in - arms, the Rockefeller Institute's Bob Ward, said the real question is whether extender bills are true budget bills, which the Legislature clearly does NOT have the power to amend, or something else entirely.

You always pay more attention when Brown uses the biblical rhetoric, because everything else he says is couched in policy wonk / managerial code.

At a breakfast in March, Moskowitz said she was a «little bit less of a policy wonk than I used to be,» and declined to comment on Governor Andrew Cuomo's plans to take over failing schools, saying she hadn't seen the specifics.

Needless to say, Trump is more likely to spend the next three weeks rehearsing for the role of George Washington in the road company of «Hamilton» than he is to suddenly discover his inner policy wonk.

«There is a lot of talk now about what can be done to avoid a boom and bust,» says Wonk, who sees «a good chance that this will reset the baseline» for NIH's annual appropriation.

He says he has «all but signed a contract» to hire Martin Myers, director of the U.S. National Vaccine Program Office, as the resident policy wonk.

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.»

As Nevada implements its groundbreaking education savings account (ESA) program, policy wonks were asked to say what the state must get right.

I think it is safe to say that Mike Feinberg and Dave Levin, the founders of KIPP, have had more influence on the school reform debate than any academic or policy wonk over the past 15 years.

A Study of Cumulative Advantage in the Educational Career,» by Notre Dame sociologist Megan Andrew, published Sept. 26, 2014, in the journal Social Forces is an empirically solid analysis that adds more weight to those who say retention — what education wonks call repeating a grade — is ultimately harmful.

I want to point out that when Nancy says «science» and wonks and researchers say «science» they are not talking about the same thing.

What is good design for a policy wonk, is not a good design for a parents and policy officials,» said John Bailey, a former Bush White House official, who now wears several hats in the education policy world, including vice president at the Foundation for Excellence in Education.

While most policy discussions around climate change focus on energy wonks, the Times says that military analysts are increasingly of the view that «climate - induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions».

Because the policy wonks and alarmists are proposing shoving said porcupine up our arses to save us from death by grape.