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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 44 line illus. 10 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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