Overview :Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or internationa... Read More
Overview :Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets. Commodities are often use... Read More
Overview :Twenty years ago cooperative federalism, in the form of federal grant-in-aid programs administered by state and local governments, was appla... Read More
Overview :This volume brings together the most current empirical research on two important innovations reshaping American education today-voucher prog... Read More
Overview :What is the price of federalism? Does it result in governmental interconnections that are too complex? Does it create overlapping responsibi... Read More
Overview :Was school reform in the decades following the Civil War an upper-middle-class effort to maintain control of the schools? Was public educati... Read More
Overview :Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of s... Read More
Overview :This book assesses the changes that have occurred in the twenty years since A Nation at Risk, which urged major reforms in American educatio... Read More
Overview :The best way of handling the question of how much to give the poor, politicians have discovered, is to avoid doing anything about it at all,... Read More
Overview :The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put in... Read More
Overview :America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined sharply in both population and employment o... Read More
Overview :While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice exp... Read More