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Opening of City Planning in Argentina to the English Speaking WorldThe Strategic Plan for the City of Buenos Aires (the Strategic Plan) is a shared vision of the future of the city developed with the participation of groups from the public, private and Non-Governmental sectors of society. With the cooperation of these …
Faculty Profile
Lily BatchelderLily Batchelder, the Robert C. Kopple Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, is one of the nation’s leading voices on tax law and policy. She is an affiliated professor at the NYU Wagner School of Public Service, faculty director of the Furman …
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So Many Children Left Behind: Segregation and the Impact of Subgroup Reporting in <em>No Child Left Behind</em> on the Racial Test Score GapAlthough the No Child Left Behind Act was intended to help "all students meet high academic standards," it is focused on subgroups of low-achieving students. The authors analyze the possible impact of the legislation's requirement for performance …
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Poverty and Migration in the Digital Age: Experimental Evidence on Mobile Banking in Bangladesh [Revised October 2019]Jean N. Lee, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran, Abu S. Shonchoy, and Hassan Zaman …
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An Update on the Bush Administration's Competitive Sourcing InitiativeTestimony regarding the Bush Administration's competitive sourcing initiative, which promises to subject at least 50 percent of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act (FAIR Act) not-inherently governmental jobs up for competition by some …
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The Coming of Age of School-Level Finance DataDiscusses implications for school finance data collection and analysis of shifting to schools as key management and policy units. Discusses questions that school-level data can answer concerning resource utilization efficiency, effectiveness, intent, and …
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LSE Cities Urban Age Conference ReportCities are critical sites for enquiry and action in relation to health and well-being. With up to 70 per cent of the world’s population estimated to be living in urban areas by 2050 1 , global health will be determined increasingly in cities. As Africa …
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Urban Aging, Social Isolation, and Emergency PreparednessThe article presents a review of an individual approach to emergency preparedness for socially isolated elderly city dwellers. It cites crisis instances highlighting older persons' vulnerability and the importance of neighborhood characteristics as the …
Capstone Projects
ReEngineering the Immigrant Student Aid ProgramHebrew Free Loan Society (HFLS) promotes economic selfsufficiency in New York by providing interestfree loans. One of its largest programs, Immigrant Student Aid, helps immigrant parents from the former Soviet Union finance higher education for their …
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Improving internal workflow process and response rateThe Office of Patient Care Services (PCS) within the Department of Veterans Affairs receives an enormous number of high-priority, deadline-sensitive electronic correspondence from Congress, the White House, the media, and veterans. PCS receives 200-500 …
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NYU Wagner’s Professor Vanessa Deane is Awarded AICP CertificationNYU Wagner is pleased to congratulate Vanessa L. Deane , Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Urban Planning & Public Service, for earning her American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) certification , a rigorous credential signaling her deep knowledge of …
Stories
Creating New Beginnings for Malawians, Alumna Melissa Kushner’s Nonprofit Aims to EmpowerMalawi, a small, southeast African country, is known as the “warm heart” of the continent, nicknamed for the friendly disposition of its people. But the country—nestled between some better-known neighbors, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia—faces real and …
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Sonia BalaramSonia Balaram is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Health Policy & Management of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. She is also an educator and community organizer. She works at the Department of Education as the Director of Youth …
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Fiscal Stimulus or Debt Relief: The Effect of Federal Pandemic Aid on State and Local PensionsBetween 2020-2021, the U.S. federal government passed four major pieces of legislation that included nearly $1 trillion in aid to state and local governments. One concern with distributing federal stimulus in the form of intergovernmental transfers is …
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Alumni Spotlight: Coryn Grange (MPA 2021)Advancing democracy and voter engagement is at the heart of Coryn Grange’s (MPA 2021) work. As a current research associate with the Voting Rights Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law and a former Parke Fellow with NYU Democracy Project at …
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Is Special Education Improving? Case Evidence From New York CityIn this study, we assess changes in the education of students with disabilities (SWDs) in the nation’s largest school district, New York City (NYC), over the decade 2005–2015. Specifically, we examine progress toward the twin legislative goals of both the …
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Use of community-level data in the National Children's Study to establish the representativeness of segment selection in the Queens Vanguard Site.BACKGROUND: The WHO Multiple Exposures Multiple Effects (MEME) framework identifies community contextual variables as central to the study of childhood health. Here we identify multiple domains of neighborhood context, and key variables describing the …
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Developing Strategies to Increase Federal Student Aid ApplicationsThe City University of New York (CUNY), America’s largest public university system, serves over a quarter million students across the five boroughs of NYC. CUNY schools provide opportunities for a diverse student body, with a large share of undergraduates …
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Financial Aid Basics: What Students Need to KnowKristy Kline and Alana Integlia from the Office of Admissions to discuss the financial aid process at NYU Wagner. …
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Distinguishing Good Schools from Bad in Principle and Practice: A Comparison of Four MethodsFor over a decade, perhaps no other issue in education has generated the same level of debate and policy activity as school accountability. At their most basic, accountability policies tie school rewards and sanctions to measures of school performance, …
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REACHING TARGET DEMOGRAPHICS AND BRINGING CREATIVE WRITING INTO THE DIGITAL AGEUptown Stories is a nonprofit organization that brings creative writing workshops to children and young adults ranging in age from eight to eighteen. The client engaged the Capstone team to develop strategies to broaden its audience to include more …
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“Positional encoder graph neural networks for geo- graphic data.Currently under review for ACM KDD 2022 Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining …