David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

considering whether results for Israel are likely to be relevant for the United States or other developed countries. In addition ...

inverted-U curve, see Augusto Di Castelnuovo et al., “Alcohol Dosing and Total Mortality in Men and Women: An Updated Meta-analy ...

matters far more than the size of the class. A great teacher can teach your child a year and a half’s material in one year. A be ...

So what should we be doing? We should be firing bad teachers. Or coaching them in order to improve their performance. Or paying ...

pointing out that nothing costs more than reducing class size. It costs so much to hire extra teachers and build them classrooms ...

in the United States was staggering: between 1890 and 1990, in constant dollars, the bill went from $2 billion to $187 billion, ...

world—in the power of teachers and their unions, and in the peculiarities of the way schools are funded. But that is not an enti ...

Chapter Three: Caroline Sacks The discussion of the Impressionists is based on several books, principally: John Rewald, The Hist ...

150. The first academic paper to raise the issue of relative deprivation with respect to school choice was James Davis’s “The Ca ...

drawbacks as well as the advantages of sending a boy to a “fine” college, if, when doing so, it is fairly certain he will end up ...

University Press, 1949), 251. For studies of so-called happy countries, see Mary Daly, Andrew Oswald, Daniel Wilson, and Stephen ...

countless papers. A good place to start is H. Marsh, M. Seaton, et al., “The Big- Fish-Little-Pond-Effect Stands Up to Critical ...

Behavioral Science Majors,” The Review of Higher Education 31, no. 4 (summer 2008). John P. Conley and Ali Sina Önder’s breakdow ...

Would it be better, [Glimp] implied, if the students at the bottom were content to be there? Thus the renowned (some would say n ...

look at the following table from the work of Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor, Mismatch: How Affirmative Action Hurts Students I ...

6. 1.6 11.0 8.2 7. 1.6 11.5 6.2 8. 2.4 11.2 6.9 9. 0.8 11.8 4.9 10. 1.6 11.7 5.2 There are a lot of numbers in this table, but o ...

with identical grades and identical test scores. Both are admitted to an elite law school under an affirmative-action program. O ...

outperform those who do. Career Success WhiteBlack Black (Affirmative Action) Percentage who graduate from law school 91.8 93.2 ...

Sander and Taylor argue very convincingly that if you are black and you really want to be a lawyer, you should do what the Impre ...

to level off at a certain point, meaning that the kinds of distinctions among students made by elite institutions are not necess ...