education-economics

This book uncovers an earlier view of economics than Adam Smith, which is not only Austrian, but finds free-market policies compatible with a moral and religous tradition. It's remarkable how modern the thought is of these mid 17th century thinkers...

This book is the simplest information about a variety of financial areas. The author uses the scriptures to support the financial principals. Then Mr. Paris teaches us how to do what we are suppose to do. Most books teach us what we need to do the information is out there for us to use. But this book teaches us how to do it not just what to do. I'm a personal financial analyst and I am so impressed with the format of this book I've started to give this book away free to some of my needy clients. Also, I've designed Financial Wisdom Seminars for the Christian community. These seminars are free and educational in nature; free books are given away at the seminars as well. All this has been inspired from this book. Buy it, read it and put it to pracitce. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Thank you H. Lynn Massey

This book is an important book for our time. Everyone who is concerned about problems besetting the public schools should read this book. A main theme of the author is that schools will not improve unless we break up EFM, the "educational finance monopoly," and instead give more power to parents. The author lays out some powerful arguments. He shows how school choice is already working well in many places, including in several European countries, and in the USA. He points out that the G.I. Bill has produced the best higher education system in the world, but our K-12 system is one of the worst in the world. Opponents of school choice charge that it will increase extremism or racism, that the government will take over private schools, or that school choice will destroy public schools. This book addresses these and other charges, demonstrating clearly that they aren't valid, but are instead "smoke screen" arguments promoted by the educational establishment. This book also includes the actual proposal for the Washington D.C. voucher system passed by Congress this last year ('98), but vetoed by Bill Clinton. If you are thinking school choice might have some merit, but have not known what to make of the arguments against it, read this book. But be careful, like myself, you may decide to become active in getting your state to beat Florida in becoming the first state to adopt a school choice proposal. Another good book on this subject is "School Choice: Why You Need It, How You Get It," by David Harmer.

The basics of grant writing from start to finish, including locating funding, internet choices, and project management, are packed into a reference which is filled with advice from grant-writing professionals. Plenty of examples of successful funding efforts are included throughout, from sample forms to analysis of the critical components of a proposal. Highly recommended.

I received this book when I got a digital organizer as a gift. I don't know what I would have done without Pamela Lessing's book! She gives easy to understand instructions to everything you need to know to get up and running with your digital organizer. Most importantly, she doesn't talk down to you.

Fiscal Equalization for State and Local Government Finance. Edited by John E. Anderson. Westport, CN: Praeger Press, 1994. 207 pp.

In California, and most of the United States, the most salient public policy issue is concern over the quality of K-12 public education. Even so, there exists an ideological schism over what is the preferred course of reform. Politically conservative, and now popular, reforms involve injecting a dose of competitive choice into public schools. The reforms that are still favored by the politically liberal, but less by the public, are greater resources applied to public schools and the greater equalization of per-student spending across school districts. Professor Anderson's edited volume is devoted to a description and analysis of this second set of public school reforms; in particular, the equalization of local resources available to U.S. school districts. Since the changes necessary to improve the quality of U.S. public schools likely involve some mixture of the two types of reforms (competitive and fiscal), this 1994 book remains contemporary.

Fiscal equalization is the process through which state government reduces disparities in revenue sources used by local governments. Disparities in local revenue sources impact the quality of public school production in the U.S. because poor school districts must exert a greater tax effort (which they usually do not) to maintain the same level of per-student spending as a wealth district. For public schooling, the desired outcomes of fiscal equalization are a reduction in per-pupil spending differences across districts and a possible increase in average per-pupil spending.

In early 1993, with the support of the National Tax Association and the National Council of State Legislators, a group of academic authors and public policy practitioners gathered in Denver to discuss the seven papers that are included in this book. To bridge the usual gap between scholars and policymakers, the practitioners offered comments that have been incorporated into all the papers through a vigorous review process that was supervised by Anderson. The success of this editing process is evident throughout the book. Unlike many volumes of this type, the papers strike a nice balance between the requisite economic theory and statistical methodology, and the lucidity required for accessibility by the policymaker. Anderson should also be complimented on his choice of authors. The ten scholars included in this work are among the most well respected experts in state and local finance in the U.S.

All in all, this monograph of seven different papers is useful to all those interested in an accessible review of current academic thought on fiscal equalization. The papers offer valuable insights on how best to go about improving the quality of K-12 public education in the United States through a more equal distribution of resources across school districts. We can hope that books like this help the public and policymaker to see that such reforms are just as important as the now populist choices of charter schools and vouchers.

This book is thorough and comprehensive in scope. It tells you exactly what you need to know to apply for a grant from the many organizations it lists. A good measure of its worth is that it's in its 11th update.

I bought FutureWork after I had already read it. Check out our summary & reactions to this great book at http://www.uwm.edu:80/People/kenhahn/brhome.htm

This book is a refreshing way to look at teaching. The creative games that fill the pages bring fun to learning. This book not only gives the reader wonderful games to use with his/her pupils, but step by step instructions on how to make these games effective. The games presented are broad enough to be used in almost any educational setting with any topic the facilitator is presenting. Most of the games are done within cooperative groups or teams, allowing for more group interaction and all around fun. This book is a must have for any teacher, workshop facilitator, or seminar presenter.

Professor Culpepper has obviously been blessed not only with the gift of intelligence but keen insight as well. His indepth comparison of the German training model with the challenges of the rapidly changing world we live in today points out the need for change which current world leaders need to recognize. Hopefully, some of his graduate students at the Kennedy School will be exposed to this information and deliver the message around the world. This is not easy reading, but it outlines the difficult challenges faced by the world's worker of the new millineum, articulates the lessons we have learned thus far (both good and bad) in a detailed and comprehensive way, and points toward a positive direction for the future. Not much more one could ask for from a scholar in his first publication. Let us hope there are enough people of influence who will struggle through this, understand it's importance, and pass on this new knowledge to others with a sense of urgency.