One significant difficulty with assessing the effectiveness of government agencies is that government often allows them to set their own standards for what constitutes acceptable outcomes. One way in which this can be fixed is to
A) give initial grants offered to states where the problems are too big to motivate compliance.
B) give the federal government sufficient bureaucratic manpower to analyze the data it needs to make good decisions..
C) question the constitutionality of such agencies' agendas.
D) ensure evaluations are objective through evidence-based policymaking.
E) ensure evaluations are subjective through a focus on the biggest problem-areas first.
D
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Which of the following statements is true of crimes in Texas?
a. The decrease in the average age of Texans has reduced crime. b. Federal crimes make up the majority of crimes. c. Technology has resulted in more crimes occurring in Texas. d. The number of arrests has increased due to the flourishing drug trade.
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Independent assessments of the performance of Texas schools indicate which of the following?
a) Texas students rank as being the best among the fifty states in college preparedness. b) Texas ranks among the highest states in combined SAT scores. c) Students in Texas are less well prepared for college and the workforce than students in many other states. d) Texas's high educational attainment helps to account for the state's high level of personal income. e) Educational attainment in Texas is slightly higher than the national average.
Whose book American Dilemma addresses the paradox that a society presumably founded on the principle that all people are created equal has "a race problem"?
A) Gunnar Mydral B) Charles E. Silberman C) William Julius Wilson D) Ralph Ellison E) Joseph Smith