{"id":1460,"date":"2008-10-31T08:19:13","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T12:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2008-10-31T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T12:19:13","slug":"federal-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1460","title":{"rendered":"Federal influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edexcellence.net\/flypaper\/index.php\/2008\/10\/can-school-districts-be-bribed-to-do-the-right-thing\/\">Mike Petrilli<\/a> asks one right question: where can the federal government influence behavior, and what are the tradeoffs? I&#8217;m especially delighted that <a href=\"http:\/\/dss.ucsd.edu\/%7Enegordon\/papers\/PayingforProgressOct2008.pdf\">the research in question is about desegregation<\/a>. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/000520.html\">I&#8217;ve written before<\/a>, the argument against top-down reform by David Tyack and Larry Cuban is smart, sensible, detailed, and fits with an enormous amount of historiography&#8230; but it doesn&#8217;t address desegregation. I&#8217;m not headed entirely towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nudges.org\/\">Nudge<\/a> territory, though I much enjoyed the book, and part of the reason is that there is a role for top-down policy imposition. We just have to be very careful about how that power is used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Petrilli asks one right question: where can the federal government influence behavior, and what are the tradeoffs? I&#8217;m especially delighted that the research in question is about desegregation. As I&#8217;ve written before, the argument against top-down reform by David Tyack and Larry Cuban is smart, sensible, detailed, and fits with an enormous amount of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein","category-education-policy","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-ny","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}