The
Charter School Dust-Up
Examining the Evidence on Enrollment and
Achievement
Martin
Carnoy, Rebecca Jacobsen, Lawrence
Mishel, and Richard
Rothstein
EPI's recent education book, The
Charter School Dust-Up, reviews the existing research on charter
schools and concludes that average charter school student achievement
is not higher than that of regular public school students. The book also
outlines how debates on these issues could be improved: by carefully accounting
for the difficulty of educating particular groups of students before interpreting
test scores, and by focusing on student gains, not their level of achievement
at any particular time.
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The Charter School Dust-Up
ISBN:
0-8077-4615-0,
Paperback, 192 pages, 6" x 9", March 2005, $16.95
Worker
Skills and Job Requirements
Is There a Mismatch?
Michael
Handel
Worker Skills and Job Requirements provides background and
an overview of the skills mismatch issue. It takes a closer look at the
currently available data used to research this issue and comes to the
conclusion that the very existence of a skills mismatch or shortage may
be in doubt and is by no means as obvious as often asserted.
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ISBN:
1-932066-16-0, paperback, 104 pages, 6"x 9", Price:$13.50
This study will be available upon release in July 2005.
Good
Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs
Labor
Markets and Informal Work in Egypt, El Salvador, India, Russia, and South
Africa
Tony
Avirgan, L.
Josh Bivens, Sarah
Gammage,
editors
The studies collected in this GPN/EPI co-release analyze in detail the
informal work situation in five countries: Egypt, El Salvador, India,
Russia, and South Africa. In addition to identifying informal employment
trends, Good
Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs also outlines an ideal and comprehensive
response to workforce development, with a specific focus on the working
poor in the informal economy.
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs
ISBN:
1-932066-17-9, paperback, 502 pages, 6" x 9", March 2005, Price:
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The
State of Working America 2004/2005
Lawrence
Mishel, Jared
Bernstein, and Sylvia
Allegretto
Prepared biennially
since 1988, EPI's flagship publication, The
State of Working America 2004/05, gives a comprehensive overview
of the American workplace, presenting a wide variety of data on family
incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty, enabling the
book's authors to closely examine the impact of the economy on the living
standards of the American people.
25%
DISCOUNT - Mention the promotion code "SWA" when ordering from
EPI.
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The State of Working America 2004/05
ISBN:
0-801489-62-8 Paperback, 484 pages, 6"x 9", January 2005 Price:
$24.95
ISBN: 0-801443-39-3 Cloth, 484 pages, 6"x 9", January 2005,
Price: $59.95
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