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17 Pol'y Persp. 1 (2010)

handle is hein.journals/plyps17 and id is 1 raw text is: Editors' Note In a year of economic recovery, Policy Perspectives is forging ahead. This year the Trachtenberg School's public policy and public administration programs welcomed the largest incoming class in our school's history. Our journal benefited tremendously from this wealth of knowledge and ambi- tion. We began this year with a mission to build a staff of editors with a strong sense of community, and we have been overwhelmed with the talent our student editors have to offer. As our nation rebuilds, this journal remains an important forum for Trachtenberg School students to engage in the policy dialogue. We are learning from the lessons of this Congress and this administration that the troubles our country is facing are not temporary challenges but rather questions that transcend generations. Our students and editors have come together to publish a journal that touches on some of these critical issues, foreign and domestic. Megan Lebow performs a cost-benefit analysis for using Green Dot charter schools as aturnaround model for failing high schools. She weighs the costs and benefits, under the assumption of sustained effectiveness, to argue that replacing failing schools with the successful Green Dot charter school model would be cost-beneficial. Anna Zimbrick examines factors that hinder the ability of Nongovern- mental Development Organizations, working with the challenges of slum communities, to learn from the past. She presents keylessons learned that prevent NGDOs from effectively using government funding to advance their mission. Greg Cato offers an analysis of United States' ethanol policy. He ex- amines the cost effectiveness and economic efficiency of the ethanol tax subsidy of meeting our nation's energy and environmental policy goals of oil security and environmental conservation. Sarah Snyder presents a cost-benefit analysis for a policy requiring parents of sixth-grade girls in Washington, D.C. to certify whether or not their children have received the HPV vaccine. She performs a sensitivity analysis altering the value of a statistical life as the basis for her assertion EDITORS NOTE I

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