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On March 10, Diane Ravitch, research professor of education at New York University and renowned education historian, will present the ideas from her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Basic Books, March 2010). A moderated discussion between experts, including William A. Galston (Brookings Institution), Mark Schneider (AEI and American Institutes for Research), and Dennis Van Roekel (National Education Association), will follow Ms. Ravitch's presentation. [READ MORE]

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Irwin Stelzer, a senior fellow and director of the Hudson Institute's economic policy studies group, will deliver the March Bradley Lecture. [READ MORE]

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Canadian and U.S. housing finance markets have had notably contrasting experiences during the international financial crises of 2007-2009. At this event, an expert panel will discuss the important differences and similarities between the two housing finance systems, and the lessons these suggest for thinking about housing bubbles. AEI's Alex J. Pollock will moderate. [READ MORE]

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Export Control Reform 2010: Transforming the Legal Architecture of Dual-Use and Defense Trade Controls
By Neena Shenai
AEI working paper, February 2010

AEI adjunct scholar Neena Shenai proposes reforms to the legal framework of the U.S. export control system. By examining the existing legal structure of dual-use and defense trade controls and its shortcomings, this paper considers how other U.S. legal regimes could provide models for ongoing reform efforts being undertaken by the Obama administration and Congress. The author proposes certain reforms, including the institution of added administrative safeguards and limited judicial review, to improve the current system. [READ MORE]

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AEI visiting scholar R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia University) raises concerns about the president's eye-popping budget and questions whether it prepares the country for its future or shackles it to past decisions our leaders would rather not confront. [READ MORE]

Gerard Alexander (AEI and the University of Virginia) argues that while there is ample condescension to go around, American liberals, far more than conservatives, appear committed to the proposition that their views are correct, self-evident, and based on fact and reason, while treating conservative positions as not just wrong but illegitimate, ideological, and unworthy of serious consideration. [READ MORE]

Another Obama Tax Hike
By Alex Brill and Doug Holtz-Eakin
Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2010

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Alex Brill (AEI) and Doug Holtz-Eakin argue that President Barack Obama's policy priorities in the health care debate impose barriers on the American dream by increasing the penalty on additional income for low- and middle-income workers. If the government takes as much as forty-one cents of every additional dollar earned by middle-income Americans, this leaves little incentive to get ahead through additional hard work. [READ MORE]

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(Encounter Books, November 2009)

From Poverty to Prosperity, from authors Nick Schulz (AEI) and Arnold Kling (Mercatus Center's Financial Markets Working Group), tells a big-picture story about the huge differences in the standard of living across time and across borders. It is a story that draws on research from the world's most important economists and eschews the conventional wisdom for a new, more inclusive vision of the world and how it works. [READ MORE]

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