Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been an important policy tool used by the government since the 1980s, when the Reagan administration ordered that all major new regulations be subjected to a rigorous test of whether their projected benefits would outweigh their costs. In their new book, New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis,...

Breakthrough leadership is possible in schools. This Outlook offers five strategies to help reform-minded educators step boldly out of self-defeating mind-sets into the turbulence of change.