State Aid and Educational Opportunity

Abstract

"It is the kind of policy-oriented research which we as an institution encourage: research which, in addition to generating knowledge with more immediate social utility, uses real-world concerns and applications to raise questions with important consequences for basic theory. We see a close and mutually beneficial relationship between basic and applied social science research with real situations and problems directing the scholar's attention to important and relevant extensions of theory. This study also reflects the belief that the concerns of normative theory are most likely to be useful when consciously related to positive theory." —from the Foreword by JOHN P. CRECINE