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The book explains why we desperately need an “Open Education
Industry.” It clearly defines the term, and the confusion about
what can/should be done to improve schooling outcomes, and why over
30 years of efforts to improve schooling outcomes has left all 51
US school systems far short of what is needed to engage all
schoolchildren in high value instruction. Because of past education
failures, especially poor basic literacy in economic systems, many
influential academics and activists have asserted the presence of
adequate market forces where key elements of high-performing
markets are absent, and have become pre-occupied with discussion
of, and development of, devastating inappropriate generalizations
about findings from studies of narrowly-targeted, restriction-laden
expansions of access to alternatives to traditional public schools.
The book compares those to transformational school choice
expansions, and describes key steps towards the inertia that
threatens the future or America as a prosperous and free republic.
The book explains why we desperately need an “Open Education
Industry.” It clearly defines the term, and the confusion about
what can/should be done to improve schooling outcomes, and why over
30 years of efforts to improve schooling outcomes has left all 51
US school systems far short of what is needed to engage all
schoolchildren in high value instruction. Because of past education
failures, especially poor basic literacy in economic systems, many
influential academics and activists have asserted the presence of
adequate market forces where key elements of high-performing
markets are absent, and have become pre-occupied with discussion
of, and development of, devastating inappropriate generalizations
about findings from studies of narrowly-targeted, restriction-laden
expansions of access to alternatives to traditional public schools.
The book compares those to transformational school choice
expansions, and describes key steps towards the inertia that
threatens the future or America as a prosperous and free republic.
Our government is failing us. From health care to immigration, from
the tax code to climate change, our political institutions cannot
deal effectively with the challenges of modern society. Why the
dysfunction? Contemporary reformers single out the usual suspects,
including polarization and the rise in campaign spending. But what
if the roots go much deeper, to the nation's founding?In Relic ,
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe point to the Constitution as the
main culprit. The framers designed the Constitution some 225 years
ago for a simple, agrarian society. But the government they
created, with a parochial Congress at its centre, is ill-equipped
to address the serious social problems that arise in a complex,
postindustrial nation. We are prisoners of the past, burdened with
an antiquated government that cannot make effective policy, and
often cannot do anything at all.The solution is to update the
Constitution for modern times. This can be accomplished, Howell and
Moe argue, through reforms that push Congress and all its
pathologies to the periphery of the lawmaking process, and bring
presidents,whose concern for their legacy drives them to seek
coherent policy solutions,to the centre of decision making. As
Howell and Moe reveal, the key to effective government for modern
America is a more powerful presidency. Relic is a provocative and
essential book for our era of political dysfunction and popular
despair. It sheds new light on what is wrong with our government
and what can be done about it, challenging us to reconsider the
very foundation of the American experiment.
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