With “value added” methods of measuring student-learning gains continuing to grow in popularity, policymakers and researchers met here last week to explore possible new ways of using the sometimes ...

The gross domestic product (GDP) of a nation is an estimate of the total value of all the goods and services it produces during a specific period, usually a quarter or a year. Its greatest use is as a ...

In addition, GDP's reliance on market prices to measure the value of economic production can also distort understanding of economic activity, providing policymakers with an inaccurate perception of ...