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An Inside Look At How Indiana Educrats Expand A Federal Law, Jeff Abbott Sep 2011

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 Sep 2011

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 Sep 2011

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 Sep 2011

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 Jan 2011

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 …