Promoting Bank Stability Through Compensation Reform: Lessons from Iceland

Lessons from Bank Privatization in Central Europe

Health care reform: lessons from Canada.

Although Canadian health care seems to be perennially in crisis, access, quality, and satisfaction in Canada are relatively high, and spending is relatively well controlled. The Canadian model is built on a recognition of the limits of markets in distributing medically necessary care. Current issues in financing and delivering health care in Canada deserve attention. Key dilemmas include interg...

Project English: Lessons From Curriculum Reform Past

Project English was born in 1962, a late addition to the curriculum reform movement in the USA that grew out of the Cold War race to dominate outer space. The Oregon Curriculum Study Center, one of the initial 12 Project English centers, took as its goal the complete reformation of the secondaryschool language arts curriculum and the education of its teachers. During its 6-year run, the Oregon ...

Lessons from Medicare+Choice for Medicare reform.

C urrent discussions of the future of Medicare include proposals to increase the enrollment of beneficiaries in private health insurance plans. These proposals would provide incentives for beneficiaries to join private plans, rely on more loosely structured health plans such as preferred provider organizations (PPOs), change the way health plans are paid, and in some cases create competition be...

Lessons From the Physics-Education Reform Effort

Several years ago I reported a survey (Hake 1998a,b,c) of pre/post test data for 62 introductory physics courses enrolling a total of 6542 students. The present article provides a summary of that survey and presents fourteen lessons from the physics-education reform effort that may assist the general upgrading of education and science literacy.