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The Cleveland mayoral election of 1975 was fought between incumbent Mayor Ralph Perk and Arnold Pinkney, President of the School Board.1 According to the Oakland Tribune of November 3, “Pinkney … cites what he says is a high rate of street crime under Perk and … Perk … says crime is bred in the schools where Pinkney has jurisdiction.”
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Milbrey Wallin McLaughlin, Evaluation and Reform: The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965/Title I, A Rand Educational Policy Study (Cambridge, Mass.: Ballinger, 1975), p. 106.
Raymond Boudon, Education, Opportunity, and Social Inequality: Changing Prospects in Western Society (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1974).
Christopher Jencks et al., Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America (New York: Basic Books, 1972).
Mickey Levy and William Niskanen, “Cities and Schools: A Case for Community Government in California,” Working Paper No. 14 (Berkeley: Graduate School of Public Policy, University of California, 1974).
Also Jonathan P. Sher and Rachel B. Tompkins, “Economy, Efficiency, and Equality: The Myths of Rural School Consolidation” (Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Education, 1976).
See John E. Coons and Stephen D. Sugarman, “A Model Integration Incentive Act,” Childhood and Government Project, Working Paper No. 44 (Berkeley-Earl Warren Legal Institute, University of California, April 1977).
See Bayla F. White, “The Atlanta Project: How One Large School System Responded to Performance Information,” Policy Analysis, Vol 1 (Fall 1975), pp. 659–692.
For an earlier design, with emphasis on implementation, see Aaron Wildavsky, “A Program of Accountability for Elementary Schools,” Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 52 (December 1970), pp. 212–216.
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Wildavsky, A. (1979). Learning from Education: If We’re Still Stuck on the Problems, Maybe We’re Taking the Wrong Exam. In: The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04955-4_14
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