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The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research is an influential conservativethink tank based in New York, and established in 1978. Their self-described mission is to "develop and disseminate new ideas that foster greater economic choice and individual responsibility." The Institute publishes the quarterly publication, City Journal which has a circulation of roughly 10,000, targeted at policymakers, politicians, scholars and journalists.
The Institute was influential with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani during his tenure as mayor of New York City, providing many of the ideas and direction towards New York City's policies in the 1990s.
People affiliated with the Manhattan Institute include:
Notable members of the board of trustees [1] (http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/trustees.htm) include: William Kristol, The Weekly Standard; Peggy Noonan, formerly of The Wall Street Journal; Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek International; Robert Rosenkranz, CEO, Delphi Financial Group, Inc.
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Official site (http://www.manhattan-institute.org/)
Conservatives plant a seed in NYC, Boston Sunday Globe, Sunday February 22, 1998 (http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_bglobe-conservatives_plant_a_.htm)
Her research shows there is higher student achievement at lower per-pupil expense in those metropolitan areas that have more school districts for parents to choose from.
The difficulty the public schools have, in addition to the fact that they're constrained by politically drawn lines, is that they're constrained because they have a weak sense of mission, no over-arching mission, and they also have been losing the confidence of parents in terms of discipline.
Public schools, by virtue of their political governance, may be averse to controversy, and therefore may shy away from teaching these subjects at all for fear of alienating or offending any group as part of the discussion.
Researchers agree that graduating from high school leads to much better life outcomes; parents uniformly desire that their children walk down the aisle in cap in gown; policymakers compete over whose ideas will lead to more high school graduates.
Members of the public are particularly concerned with evaluating the success of the public schools that their tax dollars support at producing high school graduates.
Researchers at the NCES have developed a method for calculating the percentage of students who are college ready.
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