`Carrots, Sticks, And The Bully Pulpit:' Should the Federal Government Be Fixing Schools?
What lessons can be learned from looking at the federal government's involvement in public education? How effective have attempts been at the national level to promote equity, improve achievement, and develop effective policies? Does that track record support more or less involvement by Washington?
Those are just some of the tough questions tackled in the new book "Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts To Improve America's Schools." Edited by Rick Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Andrew P. Kelly, a research fellow at AEI, the collection features 12 essays by experts chosen for their diverse points of view.
A few years ago, Hess and Kelly invited researchers and policy experts who had worked for recent presidential
Those are just some of the tough questions tackled in the new book "Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Lessons From a Half-Century of Federal Efforts To Improve America's Schools." Edited by Rick Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Andrew P. Kelly, a research fellow at AEI, the collection features 12 essays by experts chosen for their diverse points of view.
A few years ago, Hess and Kelly invited researchers and policy experts who had worked for recent presidential