The Brookings Institution introduces a series of annual volumes that provide the most authoritative and in-depth analysis available on current and emerging issues in international trade.
Contents include: China and FDI; Productivity and Taxes as Drivers of FDI; How to Investigate the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Development and Use the Results to Guide Policy; Profit Sharing between Governments and Multinationals in Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel; Returns on FDI: Does the U.S. Really Do ......
Growing economic integration has become a major concern among policymakers and international institutions in the 1990s. In light of this concern, the practitioners and academics contributing to the Brookings Trade Forum 1999 have focused on key aspects of governing in a global economy.
Contents include: *Test-Based Accountability: The Promise and the Perils Tom Loveless (Brookings) * Can the Federal Government Improve Education Research? Brian Jacob (Harvard University) and Jens Ludwig (Georgetown University ) *Realizing the Promise of Brand-Name Schools Steven F.
Why does the United States not have the teachers it needs? The media typically focus on a looming teacher shortage, but this volume of the Brookings Papers on Education Policy goes beyond the question of quantity to examine why American schools must scramble to find enough well-prepared and effective teachers.
In 1983 the seminal report issued by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, ""A Nation at Risk,"" charged that most American high schoolers were following a general course of instruction, choosing neither the college-preparatory track nor the vocational option.
Published annually, Brookings Papers on Education Policy (BPEP) analyzes policies intended to improve student performance. In each volume, some of the best-informed analysts in various disciplines review the current situation in education and consider programs for reform.
Published annually, Brookings Papers on Education Policy (BPEP) analyzes policies intended to improve student performance. In each volume, some of the best-informed analysts in various disciplines review the current situation in education and consider programs for reform.
This second annual issue of the series focuses on the state of urban education in America. It provides in-depth, jargon-free analysis of the most important issues in education today -from some of the country's leading experts.
