Politics and Policy Knowledge in Federal Education: Confronting the Evidence-Based Proverb

1. Policy Knowledge, Politics, and a Proverb of Decisions Making -- 2. No Panacea - The Purposes, Uses, and Limitations of Policy Knowledge -- 3. Challenging the Proverb: A Balanced Model for Governance Decisions -- 4. The Performance Movement and other Evidence-Based Reforms -- 5. The Roots of Modern Federal Education Policy -- 6. Improving Access to Higher Education -- Education for the Disadvantaged -- 8. Contending with the Evidence-Based Proverb -- 9. Moving Beyond the Evidence-Based Proverb.