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This book addresses various federal, state, and institutional policies affecting community colleges and speculates about future policy options with...

This book focuses on the effects of information policy. While information policy studies often consider the ideology underlying policy, the policy ...

For a variety of reasons market-oriented improvement efforts are becoming increasingly visible on the educational reform landscape. In particular, ...

The contributors provided in this book shed light on and initiate debates about important policy issues associated with education reform and improv...

The contributors provided in this book shed light on and initiate debates about important policy issues associated with education reform and improv...

This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the method...

For a variety of reasons market-oriented improvement efforts are becoming increasingly visible on the educational reform landscape. In particular, ...

Leading the problems most critical to government decision makers worldwide are those that derive from privatization, democratization, and decentral...

Although George Pataki campaigned for change, most of the human infrastructure he inherited is unlikely to change. The psychological consequences t...

Drawing upon experts in Asian economics, public management, law, and the physical and political sciences from leading universities around the world...

Managing for Results is a model of organizational reform that utilizes performance indicators, strategic planning, and benchmarks. The model focuse...

This book is organized into eight parts: systemic reform; sociology and educational policy; national content standards and assessments; opportunity...

Much current thinking about information technology in the public sector emerges from private sector experiences. While much can be transferred from...

Energy efficiency and energy conservation are often thought to be the same. They are not, according to Herbert Inhaber. Only when less total energy...

This edited collection provides a cross-sectional review of environmental legislation and administration in the United States, with comparative cha...

Sims and the contributors to this challenging new volume maintain that public sector organizations must radically reinvent themselves, if they are ...

Without jargon or mathematical theory to hinder a quick understanding and use, here are the research tools and techniques you can grasp and immedia...