School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance, and achieve social balance. In debating the feasibility of this market approach to improving school systems, analysts have focused primarily on schools as suppliers of education, but an important question remains: Will parents be able to function as "smart consumers" on behalf of their children? Here a highly respected team of social scientists provides extensive empirical evidence on how parents currently do make these choices. Drawn from...
School choice seeks to create a competitive arena in which public schools will attain academic excellence, encourage individual student performance...
This text examines the controversies surrounding state and federal regulatory oversight, and presents recommendations for changing transportation regulation and federalism.
This text examines the controversies surrounding state and federal regulatory oversight, and presents recommendations for changing transportation regu...
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 provided President George W. Bush with unprecedented levels of public support. The Bush administration used this support to push forward many aspects of its policy agenda. Anecdotal evidence in the popular press provided many examples of the administration pushing the envelope on the politicization of federal agencies and policies. But, no comprehensive study has yet been prepared to examine how and whether the Bush administration was really able to substantially re-shape bureaucratic policy and outputs, especially in the domains of domestic policy. In...
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 provided President George W. Bush with unprecedented levels of public support. The Bush administration used th...
