Education in the Twenty-First Century

by Lazear, Edward P.

• ISBN13: 9780817928926
• ISBN10: 0817928928
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

Summary

In this thought-provoking volume, scholars offer evidence, insights, and ideas on key policy questions affecting education—such as national exams, accountability, performance, and other vital issues, while detailing the importance of education to both the individual and society as a whole.

Author Biography

Edward P. Lazear, Morris Arnold Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was named to President Bush's new advisory Tax Reform Panel. Lazear will work with nine other panel members to look into revenue-neutral policy options for reforming the Federal Internal Revenue Code. Lazear is also the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics (1995) at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, where he has taught since 1992. He taught previously at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, where he was the Brown Professor of Urban and Labor Economics.

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	vii
John Raisian
Foreword	ix
George P. Shultz
Introduction	xvii
Edward P. Lazear
EDUCATION AND INCOME
The Age of Human Capital	3	(6)
Gary S. Becker
Education as a Determinant of Economic Growth	9	(16)
Robert J. Barro
The Value of Education: Evidence from Around the Globe	25	(16)
Robert E. Hall
Redistributional Consequences of Educational Reform	41	(38)
Paul M. Romer
EDUCATION AND SOCIETY
The Education of Minority Children	79	(14)
Thomas Sowell
Educating Black Students	93	(12)
Shelby Steele
Delivering Education	105	(42)
Andrew J. Coulson
Competing Visions of the Child, the Family, and the School	147	(32)
Jennifer Roback Morse
Contributors	179	(6)
Index	185