Documents tagged with federal education policy

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Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Iserbyt

Chronological breakdown of U.S. Naitonal Policy on Education. Look into the history of the General Education Board as well as the National Education Association!!!!!
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The Poverty of Preschool Promises: Saving Children and Money with the Early Education Tax Credit, Ca

The political momentum behind state-level preschool programs is tremendous, but existing proposals are often flawed and expensive. Preschool can provide small but statistically significant shor...
  • CatoInstitute published this 07 / 27 / 2009
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Markets vs. Monopolies in Education: A Global Review of the Evidence, Cato Policy Analysis No.

Would large-scale, free-market reforms improve educational outcomes for American children? That question cannot be answered by looking at domestic evidence alone. Though innumerable "school choice"...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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The Fiscal Impact of a Large-Scale Education Tax Credit Program, Cato Policy Analysis No. 618

In this paper we estimate the budgetary impact of the Cato Institute's Public Education Tax Credit model legislation on five states and present a generalized spreadsheet tool ("the Fiscal Impact...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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End It, Don't Mend It: What to Do with No Child Left Behind, Cato Policy Analysis No. 599

Executive Summary The looming expiration of the federal No Child Left Behind Act has prompted a flood of commission reports, studies, and punditry. Virtually all of those analyses have assume...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflict, Cato Policy Analysis No. 587

It is all too often assumed that public education as we typically think of it today
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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Giving Kids the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need, Cato Policy Analysis No. 579

Executive Summary New research on the role that teachers play in student achievement is demonstrating that higher- quality teachers can significantly improve educational outcomes, especially ...
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No Child Left Behind: The Dangers of Centralized Education Policy, Cato Policy Analysis No. 544

Executive Summary The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which the Bush administration claims as its proudest achievement in domestic policy, directly contradicts the principles of an "ownershi...
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A Lesson in Waste: Where Does All the Federal Education Money Go?, Cato Policy A

Executive Summary Since the 1965 passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which concentrated unprecedented authority over American education in the hands of the federal governme...
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Escaping IDEA: Freeing Parents, Teachers, and Students through Deregulation and

Executive Summary Originally enacted as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act of 1975 was intended to guarantee each disable...
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Parent Power: Why National Standards Won't Improve Education, Cato Policy Analys

Executive Summary President Bush has unveiled an activist education plan that requires states to improve their worst schools or face sanctions from the federal government. The plan would tie Tit...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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12-Hour School Days? Why Government Should Leave Afterschool Arrangements to Par

Executive Summary In the 2000 State of the Union Address, President Clinton proposed the largest-ever federal expenditure on afterschool programs, saying, "Let's double our investments in afters...
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Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experim

Executive Summary For decades critics of the public schools have been saying, "You can't solve educational problems by throwing money at them." The education establishment and its supporters hav...
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Education: Is America Spending too Much?, Cato Policy Analysis No. 126

Executive Summary When A Nation at Risk made its spectacular appearance in 1983, chronicling the deterioration of American schooling and the ignorance of graduates, the educational reform debate...
  • CatoInstitute published this 03 / 26 / 2009
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