Jon Cohen

Type: Person

Name: Jon Cohen

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

Washington Post Media segments polling industry news with mobile app

The Washington Post Media’s Capital Insight group has launched a mobile application that bundles news from the polling industry to let consumers quickly access content.The Poll Watch app is available for free download from Apple’s App Store and Google ... [Published Mobile Marketer - May 15 2013]

Entities: Mobile Apps, Jon Cohen, Publisher, American Association for Public Opinion Research

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Most Americans support lifting ban on gay Boy Scouts

A wide majority of Americans support the Boy Scouts of America’s proposal to admit gay scouts for the first time, and most oppose the organization’s plans to continue to bar gay adults from serving as scout leaders, according to a new Washington Post-ABC ... [Published Washington Post - May 09 2013]

Entities: Gay, Jon Cohen, Homosexuality

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Rolling Stone

Sweetlife Festival Grows from Backyard Concert to Big Attraction for Music Fans

WASHINGTON -- In April 2010, a small Washington, D.C., restaurant chain staged a concert for 700 people in front of its Dupont Circle location. On Saturday, the same chain expects to stuff the mighty Merriweather Post Pavilion with 20,000 strong.The fourth ... [Published Southern Maryland Online - May 08 2013]

Entities: Jon Cohen, Attraction, Organic, Rolling Stone

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Virginia Governor Popular With Voters, Washington Post Poll Finds

(c) 2013, The Washington Post.In the last year of his four-year term, Gov. Robert McDonnell, R-Va., remains firmly popular with Virginia voters, getting high marks from independents, Democrats and Republicans on how he is handling his duties as governor ... [Published Oregonian - May 06 2013]

Entities: Star Scientific Inc, Charles Davis, Transportation, Grupo Media Capital SGPS SA, Jon Cohen

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc

States' Online Testing Problems Raise Common-Core Concerns

Widespread technical failures and interruptions of recent online testing in a number of states have shaken the confidence of educators and policymakers in high-tech assessment methods and raised serious concerns about schools' technological readiness ... [Published Individual.com - May 06 2013]

Entities: Douglas Levin, Education, The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc, Jon Cohen

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Terry McAuliffe

McAuliffe has 69% of blacks’ support, but it might not be enough

When is nearly 70 percent support from a key voting bloc not good enough? When youre a Virginia Democrat running statewide without President Obama atop the ballot.As he seeks to reclaim the governorship for his party, businessman Terry McAuliffe isnt ... [Published Washington Post - May 05 2013]

Entities: Terry McAuliffe, African-Americans, Barack Obama, Jon Cohen, Ken Cuccinelli

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

NRA National Rifle Association

The NRA A-rated senators who did the right thing

The vote is past but the anger has not subsided at the defeat of a modest and truly common sense bill to expand background checks for gun buyers. We want to take a moment to ask you to thank some senators who most often find themselves on the opposite ... [Published Credo Action - May 03 2013]

Entities: NRA National Rifle Association, Harry Reid, Gun Lobby, Assault Weapon, Gun Violence

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Guantanamo Bay hunger strike forces Washington to revisit imprisonment

Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a number of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block.The detainees are offered a hot meal or a liquid nutritional supplement ... [Published Washington Post - May 02 2013]

Entities: Guantánamo Bay, Detainee, Guantanamo (Cuba)

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Computer issues ensnare testing at schools in 3 states, raise questions about scores' validity

INDIANAPOLIS School districts across several states are rescheduling high-stakes tests that judge student proficiency and even determine teachers pay because of technical problems involving the test administrators computer systems. Thousands of students ... [Published Washington Post - May 02 2013]

Entities: Jon Cohen, The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc, Minnesota Department of Education, Mitch Daniels

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Stahl Cowen takes on risks, grows

Fifteen years ago, Jeff Stahl was in an uncomfortable position for a lawyer. He was taking a big risk.He left his life as a successful partner at a midsize firm in Chicago and started his own operation."My wife will attest to it — I truly did not sleep ... [Published Chicago Lawyer - May 02 2013]

Entities: Jon Cohen, Gary Stern, Addis (United States)

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 2 reports

Minnesota students get more time for tests after computer problems

State education chief offers no deadlineMinnesota's education chief has decided to give schools more time to complete state proficiency tests after students experienced problems with the new online system.Education commissioner Brenda Cassellius announced ... [Published TwinCities.com - May 01 2013]

Entities: Jon Cohen, Education, Deadline, State Education

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

Duluth schools report problems with computerized state assessment tests

Duluth students taking online proficiency tests this week and last week have endured midtest shutdowns, problems with questions loading and other technical issues.(2009 file / News Tribune)Duluth students taking online proficiency tests this week and ... [Published Duluth News Tribune - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Pioneer Press, Saint Paul (Minnesota, United States), Jon Cohen, Minnesota Department of Education

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Capital Insight Launches “Poll Watch” App for i... [Published Editor & Publisher - May 14 2013]
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Sweetlife Festival Grows from Backyard Concert ... [Published Southern Maryland Online - May 08 2013]
Patriot Coal bankruptcy threatens thousands of ... [Published World Socialist Web Site - May 08 2013]
Virginia Governor Popular With Voters, Washingt... [Published Oregonian - May 06 2013]
States' Online Testing Problems Raise Common-Co... [Published Individual.com - May 06 2013]
McAuliffe has 69% of blacks’ support, but it mi... [Published Washington Post - May 05 2013]
In Virginia Governor's Race, Democrat McAuliffe... [Published Oregonian - May 05 2013]
Measuring proficiency: duty of teachers or tests? [Published TwinCities.com - May 04 2013]
The NRA A-rated senators who did the right thing [Published Credo Action - May 03 2013]
Guantanamo Bay hunger strike forces Washington ... [Published Washington Post - May 02 2013]
Three arrested for allegedly helping suspect af... [Published Washington Post - May 02 2013]
Stahl Cowen takes on risks, grows [Published Chicago Lawyer - May 02 2013]
Computer issues ensnare testing at schools in 3... [Published Washington Post - May 02 2013]
Computer Glitches Derail School Tests in 3 Stat... [Published KSTP - May 01 2013]
Minnesota students get more time for tests afte... [Published TwinCities.com - May 01 2013]
State will allow students more time to take pro... [Published TwinCities.com - May 01 2013]
Duluth schools report problems with computerize... [Published Duluth News Tribune - Apr 25 2013]
On 10 Breakthrough Technologies [Published Technology Review - Apr 23 2013]
Computer glitch disrupts standardized math test... [Published Fargo Forum - Apr 17 2013]
Computer glitch disrupts student testing [Published South Carolina Enquirer-Herald - Apr 17 2013]
Online glitches interrupt MCA tests [Published Minnesota Public Radio - Apr 17 2013]
Computer crash derails math assessment exams fo... [Published TwinCities.com - Apr 17 2013]
Minnesota: Computer glitch halts statewide onli... [Published TwinCities.com - Apr 17 2013]
Computer crash disrupts state test for thousand... [Published Minneapolis Star Tribune - Apr 17 2013]
Salaried employees also worried about Patriot b... [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 06 2013]
Whatever the Supreme Court decides, these nine ... [Published Ezra Klein - Mar 26 2013]
Support for Gay Marriage Grows as Supreme Court... [Published PBS - Mar 19 2013]
Wonkbook: Budget v. Budget [Published Ezra Klein - Mar 19 2013]

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Whatever the Supreme Court decides, these nine ... [Published Ezra Klein - Mar 26 2013] Today, the Supreme Court opens two days of oral arguments on whether the right to marriage extends to same-sex couples. Both cases—one on California’s Prop 8, the other on the federal Defense of Marriage Act—are being closely watched. People began lining ...
Wonkbook: Budget v. Budget [Published Ezra Klein - Mar 19 2013] Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog . Wonkbook’s Number ...
Wonkbook: Everything you need to know about the... [Published Ezra Klein - Mar 14 2013] Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog . Wonkbook’s Number ...
Wonkbook: The latest push for a grand bargain [Published Ezra Klein - Mar 07 2013] Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog . Wonkbook’s Number ...
AES Earnings Call Insights: Targeted Asset Sale... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - Feb 28 2013] AES Corp ( NYSE:AES ) recently reported its fourth quarter earnings and discussed the following topics in its earnings conference call. Targeted Asset Sales Jon Cohen – ISI Group: Just a couple of quick questions. So, the $400 million of targeted ...