In an era marked by widespread belief that teacher quality may be the key to school improvement, determining how--and how much--to pay teachers is a vital concern.

This volume explores how Texas's groundbreaking program of electricity restructuring has become a model for truly competitive energy markets in the United States.

A number of states have recently sought to increase competition in the electricity industry to drive down prices, increase supply, and improve service quality. Yet in the aftermath of the rolling blackouts and power shortages that afflicted California in 2000 and 2001, many jurisdictions have been reluctant to break with...

Electrical Restructuring: The Texas Story explores how Texas's groundbreaking program of electricity restructuring has become a model for truly competitive energy markets in the United States.

Following a defeat in Citizens United, the Obama administration is making an unprecedented assault on free speech through a proposed executive order requiring federal bidders to disclose their political giving during the previous two years.

As the twentieth century nears its end, large numbers of immigrants from ethnic groups relatively new to the American melting pot are, once again, entering the United States.

Americans are faced with the formidable task of incorporating millions of immigrants into our civilization, yet the goal of assimilation has come under attack.

A remembrance of the late Jesse Helms, the legendary and controversial chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.