The ‘Untimely’ Deleuze: Some Implications for Educational Policy

Some Implications of Current Policy for Educational Measurement

Brain, behavior, biology, and music: Some research findings and their implications for educational policy

As an invited contributor to Arts Education Policy Review, I am pleased to have this opportunity to address a readership directly concerned with educational policy. But I have the mark of the interloper. As a university instructor for more than thirty years, I have some knowledge of education, but it does not extend to preschool and K-12. Nor have I expertise as a practitioner in the arts or as...

Some Educational Implications of Childhood Cancer

R si fearc^ into the social and psychological effects of *ness on children with such chronic diseases as hrria, diabetes, haemophilia and cystic fibrosis is inclusive; some studies (Olch, 1971; Gayton and Friedar|, 1974) indicate that these children often fall short of Q'r educational potential, but others .(Burton, 1974; J0rmina et al, 1976) suggest that children develop, in ^'n9 strategies, a...

The Fairness of Sanctions: Some Implications for Optimal Enforcement Policy

In this article we incorporate notions of the fairness of sanctions into the standard model of public enforcement. When both the probability and magnitude of sanctions may be varied, the usual solution involves a very high sanction and a relatively low probability of enforcement if individuals are risk neutral. When the issue of fairness is added to the analysis, the optimal sanction generally ...

The Evolution of Cash Transactions: Some Implications for Monetary Policy

This paper considers the implications of a decreasing demand for cash transactions under several monetary policy regimes. A policy of nominal-interest-rate targeting implies that a secular decline in the volume of cash transactions unambiguously leads to accelerating inflation. A policy of maintaining a fixed composition of government liabilities leads to accelerating (decelerating) inflation i...