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A Step Closer To Value-Added Assessment
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
6.26.2002
A key deficiency in California’s school accountability system is the state’s inability to track individualstudent test scores over time. Thus, it is impossible to discern the value added of curricula, programs, teaching methods, or other education policies on student performance. This situation may be changing, however, thanks to a bill recently approved by the state senate.
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Old Thinking About “New Source Review”
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
6.19.2002
Last week the Bush administration announced new regulations designed to speed up maintenance and upgrading of electric power plants to make them more energy efficient and expand generation capacity. And there followed the predictable result: all hell broke loose from environmentalists.
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PC Superstition on Campus
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.7.2002
The careers of Margaret Thatcher, Jeanne Kirkpatrick, and Benazir Bhutto do not reveal any deficiency in women’s ability to recognize facts and understand the real world. But those who teach something called “women’s studies” seem to have some problems in these basic areas.
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Silly Season at the Times
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
6.4.2002
William F. Buckley, Jr. once remarked that he got ideas for his newspaper column simply by opening to any page of the New York Times, where an outrage was sure to be found. This proved to be no hyperbole on Monday of this week, when the Times carried an outrage on seemingly every page.
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Thoughts on the Microsoft mess
ePolicy
6.1.2002
This month’s post includes two articles on the Microsoft case. One author is part of the ABM (anything but Microsoft) community, but yet he argues that the free market can do far more than the antitrust trial. The other author discusses how the proposed settlement from the nine hold-out states would affect disabled persons. I hope you find these commentaries interesting and informative.
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Bring On The Real Competition
Health Policy Prescriptions
6.1.2002
Health insurance premiums are growing at unsustainable rates. Large parts of the population don’t have any insurance at all, and Medicare beneficiaries continue to be covered by an antiquated program with large gaps in coverage – most conspicuously, a lack of coverage for outpatient prescription drugs. This is all eerily similar to the health-care landscape a decade ago.
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Death by Regulation
Freedom and Public Policy
By: Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D
6.1.2002
On May 9, Sam Hussein, 60, owner of a San Francisco liquor store for 15 years, was gunned down at point-blank range as he tended the counter. Hussein, a generous shopkeeper who immigrated to the United States from Palestine 30 years ago, died at San Francisco General Hospital shortly after the shooting. He leaves behind a wife and eight devoted children.
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