Revisionist Reflections on California's Master Plan @50

Reflections on 50 years of newborn screening.

Newborn screening (NBS) began 50 years ago with the ability to screen for phenylketonuria from dried-blood spots and prevent long-term disability through dietary intervention. Now nearly all of the 4 million infants born in the United States are screened for a wide array of significant medical conditions by using dried-blood spots and pointof-care tests, leading to early diagnosis and treatment...

Reflections on Human Action after 50 Years

The core of Ludwig von Mises’ thought is the theory of human action, or praxeology, the general science he seeks to articulate. Within this general science is included—embedded in it—catallactics, or the science of exchange (Mises [1949] 1996: 1–3; hereafter M). Consequently, to Mises everything we seek to study in economics stems ultimately from individual choice, the key to which is subjectiv...

A K-12 Master Plan

New Investment Plan Will Fund Master Plan Students Flee Katrina

Taxpayer support for public colleges has been falling sharply in recent years, not only in New York but around the country, and this has lately been causing a great deal of concern among many administra t o r s. The trend has also led to j o l t i n g , unpredictable tuition i n c r e a s e s. But CUNY has developed a long-term plan that could become a national model for the funding of public c...

Reflections on queue modelling from the last 50 years

Queueing theory continues to be one of the most researched areas of operational research, and has generated numerous review papers over the years. The phrase ‘queue modelling’ is used in the title to indicate a more practical emphasis. This paper uses work taken predominantly from the last 50 years of pages of the Operational Research Quarterly and the Journal of the Operational Research Societ...