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The expert contributors to this volume assess recent US court actions in school adequacy lawsuits and their impact on student outcomes. They show that simply throwing more resources at the problem has not brought about a solution and call for changes centred around accountability, incentives, and more informed parents and policymakers.

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John Chubb shows how we can raise student achievement to levels through a radically new strategy for raising teacher quality. He asserts that we must attract and retain much higher-calibre individuals in teaching by reducing the size and increasing the compensation of the teaching force via technology, abolishing licensing and training teachers in institutions and programmes that have demonstrated their efficacy in producing effective, and imp...

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Evaluates the complex developments between the United States and Korea and offers policy recommendations for how both countries in the future might avoid the bitter politiczation of trade disputes of the recent past and expand their economic relations.

The wartime memoirs of Count Rene de Chambrun provide a fascinating inside look at the world of some of the most powerful leaders and social figures in America during the turbulent early 1940s. Utilizing the detailed notes he made during that period, de Chambrun recounts the story of his dramatic wartime years.

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The essays in this book employ a multidisciplinary approach to systematically compare the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China on Taiwan.

This study focuses on important aspects of daily life - food, clothing, housing, education, occupational and educational mobility, employment, and the prestige of various occupations - mainly among poor, urban Soviet families - between 1977 and 1979.

Sixteen distinguished foreign policy experts test the chances of peace by examining American foreign policy.

A collection of Bertram Wolfe's unpublished essays about Lenin.

Analyses the central issues, describes the policy options open to the US, and recommends courses of action to deal with or mitigate the problems confronting the US - in recognition of the fact that the major problems of the new decade "are interrelated, and that different perspectives can contribute to a clearer and more balanced understanding.

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The Soviet Union and Postwar Japan is a magisterial survey of the problems--ideological, political, cultural, diplomatic, economic, and military--which exist between these two major powers, based upon Professor Swearingen's unusual first-hand knowledge of this area and issues.

Argues for the need to combine education with capitalism. Drawing on insights and findings from history, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, the authors show how, if our schools were moved from the public sector to the private sector, they could once again do a superior job providing K-12 education.

Reveals Herbert Hoover as a staunch defender of constitutional government and one of the US's least understood presidents. Battling political partisanship while trying to place the needs of the nation over those of state and localities, Hoover found his programme for America's entry into the new scientific era overwhelmed by changes in the social and economic structure of a nation entering a new age.

Many papers included in this volume express scepticism regarding both the diagnosis of the American health system as fundamentally ailing and the prescription of greater public intervention in the financing and delivery of medical services as the remedy and sure path to recovery.

The federal government is today facing the largest fiscal challenge since World War II. The fundamental question before the nation is whether the fiscal course the government is on can continue. David Koitz argues that it is not a Democratic or Republican problem, it is an American problem. As it comes ever closer, he contends, the need for political convergence becomes ever more pressing. Written so as to make the issues understandable to non...

In a fresh look at the age-old question of nature's laws versus individual choice, Machan offers an insightful discussion of human initiative as a basic feature of our personal and community lives--and its implications for personal relations, politics, criminal law, social work, and public policy.

Offers recommendations for ensuring the security and sustainability of the US electricity system now and for future generations through the greater deployment of distributed power systems (DPS). This report provides a comprehensive survey of the current technology and policy landscape of DPS and offers suggestions for its most effective use, along with warnings on its possible pitfalls.