With job prospects clouded for even the well-educated, those who leave school with no training beyond high school now face great challenges in making the transition from school to work. Emerging research and experience in other countries have led many to believe that the workplace can play a much larger educational role than it now does. The School-to-Work Opportunity Act of 1994, for example, requires programs funded under the act to include educationally guided work placements as part of the educational strategy. Although there is a growing consensus that employers have much to...
With job prospects clouded for even the well-educated, those who leave school with no training beyond high school now face great challenges in maki...
This book, the result of a Brookings conference, brings together representatives of various viewpoints on the utility and equity of increasing the use of tests for students, teachers, and schools.
This book, the result of a Brookings conference, brings together representatives of various viewpoints on the utility and equity of increasing the use...
As America's struggle with the dual problem of exploding health costs and assuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has moved to the centre of the public policy debate. A prime example of this is the intense public discussion surrounding the proposal by the state of Oregon to provide universal health care but to ration which diagnoses and treatments will be covered. Focusing largely on the Oregon proposal, this volume examines a wide range of ethical, methodological, legal and political issues that must be addressed by any serious programme of health care...
As America's struggle with the dual problem of exploding health costs and assuring access to health care for the uninsured, health care rationing has ...
A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This book offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and use of long-term and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly.
A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This book offers ...
