Assessing educational Practices: The Contribution of Economics; Does money matter? The effect of school resources on student achievement and adult success; and Holding schools accountable: Performance-based reform in education
✍ Scribed by Robert M. Schwab
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0276-8739
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✦ Synopsis
Richard Darman's Who's in Control? and Robert Reich's Locked in the Cabinet offer insider accounts by two top federal officials of their policymaking roles during the last three presidencies. The latter who served as President Bill Clinton's first secretary of labor had close ties both with the president and Hillary Clinton and was a major actor early on. Over time Reich became increasingly isolated in remaining a card-carrying liberal as the president shifted dramatically to the right after the November 1994 midterm election that saw the Republicans gain control of Congress for the first time since the Eisenhower presidency. Darman, in contrast, offers an eyewitness account by one of the central actors over the 12 years of the Reagan and Bush presidencies. In Ronald Reagan's first term Darman became the top aide to Chief of Staff James Baker, the most powerful White House staffer during that period. Darman served as the number two person under a still powerful Baker, the Treasury secretary in Reagan's second term. As George Bush's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director, Darman and Chief of Staff John Sununu controlled domestic policy with the powers, if not the title, of deputy presidents, and also had great clout in the economic arena, albeit not as much as in domestic policy. Darman ranks with Reagan's first OMB head David Stockman at the top of the power scale for White House policy analysts.