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Event Recap: Careers in Labor Rights PanelOn February 12, 2025, NYU Wagner’s Office of Career Services and the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative hosted a Careers in Labor Rights panel for a thought-provoking discussion on grassroots labor organizing and initiatives for workers’ rights in the city. The …
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Measuring Equity at the School Level: The Finance PerspectiveThis article explores conceptual, methodological, and empirical issues in resource allocation at the intradistrict and school levels. With increased attention focused on policies and data related to resources within districts, it is important that …
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Monitoring Public Service Delivery Under Indonesias Emerging DecentralizationIn the wake of the 1997 Asian fiscal crises and the demise of the Suharto regime, the government of Indonesia has implemented a decentralization program that is considered the new hope for development and growth in the country. If local government …
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Health in Hong Kong: An International PerspectiveHong Kong stands out among wealthy megacities as having some of the best indicators of population health. Infant mortality is 3.0 per 1,000 births in Hong Kong compared to 6.2 in New York City and 4.0 in Paris, while life expectancy at birth is 78.0 years …
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Understanding the Political Context of "New " Policy Issues: The Use of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in the Case of Expanded After-School Programs… attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies in five cities, we show how the framework can be extended beyond … and pressures for change. Coalitions in each of the cities differ over core values relating to the purposes of …
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"Understanding the Political Context of 'New' Policy Issues: The Use of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in the Case of Expanded After-School Programs"… attention beginning in the early 1990s in many American cities. Using evidence from case studies in five cities, we show how the framework can be extended beyond … and pressures for change. Coalitions in each of the cities differ over core values relating to the purposes of …
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SUMMER 2022 LEAD AND PARKE FELLOWSNiya Ray is a first year MPA-PNP student at NYU Wagner with a specialization in Advocacy and Political Action. She is a graduate of Spelman College where she holds a B.A. in Political Science. During her time at Spelman she was able to work with state and …
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Teenage Employment and the Spatial Isolation of Minority and Poverty Households… households. Minority youth residing in more segregated cities or cities in which minorities have less contact with nonpoor …
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Does Small High School Reform Lift Urban Districts? Evidence From New York CityResearch finds that small high schools deliver better outcomes than large high schools for urban students. An important outstanding question is whether this better performance is gained at the expense of losses elsewhere: Does small school reform lift the …
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Sarah Kaufman Named to Transportation Power Players List… traffic congestion, and promote sustainable solutions for cities across the globe. When asked about how policymakers … pilot programs, inspired by successful implementations in cities like San Francisco and Miami, to help modernize New …
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Determinants of School Performance in New York Elementary Schools: Results and Implications for Resource UseThis study seeks to identify and better understand factors that determine differences in performance/efficiency between various schools. It also examines through statistical analysis strengths and weaknesses of the production-function based approach to …
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The Role of Partnerships and Participation in Local Economic Development in Africa… populations in developing countries continue to grow, cities are becoming an increasingly critical component to … assessed approaches to local economic development in two cities: Livingstone, Zambia and Kigali, Rwanda. The team …
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Sustaining Urban Networks: The Social Diffusion of Large Technical Systems… discuss sustainability from three main perspectives: uses, cities, rules/institutions. …
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Red Hook EcoDistrict: The Next Wave of Sustainable Urban DevelopmentEnterprise Community Partners (ECP) is a nonprofit organization that has been a passionate and forthright voice, locally and nationally, in the advocacy of issues important to the affordable housing community. ECP is also a national leader in bringing the …
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Allen ZerkinAllen J. Zerkin has been an Adjunct Professor of Public Service at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service since 1988, teaching courses on negotiation and conflict management. He also teaches, annually, a course on negotiation and conflict …
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Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Michael Blake in Conversation with the Honorable Shaun Donovan… and staff to discuss the future of urban policy in cities like New York with the Honorable Shaun Donovan, former … City. Donovan admitted he had some fear for the future of cities, explaining that there is a “new urban renaissance” in …
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The Wagner Experience: Kathryn Gonzalez (MPA)"I think coming to New York City for graduate school was important because of the complicated nature of problems that exist here—I wanted to know what they were and be learned in the art of addressing those …
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Health Care in World Cities: New York, London and Paris… New York. London. Paris. Although these cities have similar sociodemographic characteristics, … access to health care in the developed world's largest cities. The authors first review the current literature on … primary care, and specialty health care services can help cities control such problems as premature mortality and heart …
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Wagner community welcomes Bill de Blasio as its 2023 Marnold Visiting FellowNYU Wagner faculty, adjuncts, and staff gathered at the Puck Building last night to welcome former New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, who joined NYU Wagner this spring as a 2023 Marnold Visiting Fellow. During his time with us, de Blasio will host …
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Event Recap: A Conversation with Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Iris Weinshall and GuestsOn Thursday, April 3, 2025, NYU Wagner hosted, in its Main Event Space, A Conversation with Distinguished Visiting Urbanist Iris Weinshall and an expert panel discussing civic infrastructure in New York City. Weinshall, the chief operating officer of the …
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Cities—faced with climate change—must prove resilient… and thought-leaders to explore this year’s theme: Cities, Climate Change, and Resilience. Industry expert Amy … Gernot Wagner led discussions about the importance of cities to respond to the growing climate crisis and economic … policy makers, and planners to analyze the policies that cities can and should pursue. The speakers were introduced by …
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Do Small Schools Improve Performance in Large, Urban Districts? Causal Evidence from New York CityWe evaluate the effectiveness of small high school reform in the country's largest school district, New York City. Using a rich administrative datasest for multiple cohorts of students and distance between student residence and school to instrument for …
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Vishaan Chakrabarti Discusses “The Architecture of Urbanity” at Henry Hart Rice Urban Policy Forum… He dispelled the myth that “urbanity” always refers to big cities or cosmopolitan spaces, instead defining it as any …
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Health Improvements in BRIC Cities: Moscow, São Paulo, and Shanghai, 2000–10… this indicator has never been used to compare these cities. During the period 2000–10, age‐adjusted rates of all leading causes of AM fell in all three cities. In São Paulo, it dropped from 1.57 to 1.19 per 1,000 … (30 percent), and São Paulo (24 percent). All three cities experienced large reductions in chronic cardiovascular …