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An Inside Look At How Indiana Educrats Expand A Federal Law, Jeff Abbott
An Inside Look At How Indiana Educrats Expand A Federal Law, Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
A discussion on how Indiana lawmakers and state department officials have expanded the rights of special education students and parents.
The Politicians Still Don’T Get It: The Corruption Of Public Education, Jeff Abbott
The Politicians Still Don’T Get It: The Corruption Of Public Education, Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
Indiana politicians and school reform are discussed.
An Historical Comparison And Analysis Of School Laws Enacted By The Indiana General Assembly During Four Selected Decades (2007)., Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
This was a study of four selected decades to determine if the Indiana General Assembly was increasing the amount of school statutes in Indiana.
Freedom Schools: A Third Dimension To The Upcoming Debate Over The Consolidation Of Indiana Government Schools, Jeff Abbott
Freedom Schools: A Third Dimension To The Upcoming Debate Over The Consolidation Of Indiana Government Schools, Jeff Abbott
Jeff Abbott
No abstract provided.
Collective Choice, Justin Schwartz
Collective Choice, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
This short nontechnical article reviews the Arrow Impossibility Theorem and its implications for rational democratic decisionmaking. In the 1950s, economist Kenneth J. Arrow proved that no method for producing a unique social choice involving at least three choices and three actors could satisfy four seemingly obvious constraints that are practically constitutive of democratic decisionmaking. Any such method must violate such a constraint and risks leading to disturbingly irrational results such and Condorcet cycling. I explain the theorem in plain, nonmathematical language, and discuss the history, range, and prospects of avoiding what seems like a fundamental theoretical challenge to the possibility …