Intending to Legislate

Intending to Act

Is It Possible to Legislate Fair Share?

Lost in the debate surrounding net neutrality is the assumption that all end hosts play nice and “fair share” the limited network bandwidth. Traditionally, “fair share” is enforced through a combination of forces: there is a general consensus on the TCP congestion control algorithm, operating system vendors implement such algorithm in the kernels and it cannot be changed, applications use TCP a...

Eric Hanushek Can Governments Legislate Higher Teacher Quality? Can government legislate higher teacher quality?

This paper discusses different perspectives from which to assess teacher quality and develops a conceptual framework focusing on outcome based measures of instructional performance. Results from a series of analyses on academic achievement in Texas public schools are used to describe both the variation in teacher effectiveness and the extent to which that variation is captured by observable mea...

Attending and intending.

children insert an extra wh-word in the middle of a question ('What do you think what pigs eat? ') thus creating a construction that is acceptable in German. These errors reflect the limit of the POS: as there is no German input, the error must arise from children's own innate expectations. Crain and Pietroski also engage the empiricist arguments on their own ground. They consider carefully var...

To Legislate or Not to Legislate? A Comparison of the UK and South African Approaches to the Development and Implementation of Salt Reduction Programs

The World Health Organization promotes salt reduction as a best-buy strategy to reduce chronic diseases, and Member States have agreed to a 30% reduction target in mean population salt intake by 2025. Whilst the UK has made the most progress on salt reduction, South Africa was the first country to pass legislation for salt levels in a range of processed foods. This paper compares the process of...