ABSTRACT
According to a familiar adage, “Give a person a fish and feed her for a day; teach her to fish and feed her forever.” Similarly, teachers of analytical subjects such as math, chemistry, and statistics recognize the importance of (1) teaching students problem-solving skills that enable their students to recognize the type of problem with which they are faced, and (2) teaching the requisite analytical tools necessary to produce a well-reasoned answer.1 In this book, a problem-solving framework is introduced that can be used to analyze a wide variety of public policy problems. This framework is demonstrated through an analysis of some of the policy issues related to government’s role in the reform of primary and secondary education in the United States.
