Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses : : Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools / / Alfred A. Lindseth, Eric A. Hanushek.
Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions...
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Hanushek, Eric A., author. Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses : Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools / Alfred A. Lindseth, Eric A. Hanushek. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource : 44 line illus. 10 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Just How Important Is Education? -- 2. U.S. Education at a Crossroads -- 3. The Political Responses -- 4. Court Interventions in School Finance -- 5. Practical Issues with Educational Adequacy -- 6. The Effectiveness of Judicial Remedies -- 7. Science and School Finance Decision Making -- 8. A Performance-Based Funding System -- 9. Making Performance-Based Funding a Reality -- Notes -- Legal Citations -- Sources for Figures and Tables -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Spurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the United States now spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. Yet American students still achieve less than their foreign counterparts, their performance has been flat for decades, millions of them are failing, and poor and minority students remain far behind their more advantaged peers. In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement. Instead, Hanushek and Lindseth propose a new approach: a performance-based system that directly links funding to success in raising student achievement. This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost-effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance. Hanushek and Lindseth have been important participants in the school funding debate for three decades. Here, they draw on their experience, as well as the best available research and data, to show why improving schools will require overhauling the way financing, incentives, and accountability work in public education. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Academic achievement United States. Education Finance. Public schools Finance. Public schools United States Finance. EDUCATION / Finance. bisacsh Lindseth, Alfred A., author. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691130002 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400830251 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400830251.jpg |
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