Making money matter : financing America's schools / Helen F. Ladd and Janet S. Hansen, editors ; Committee on Education Finance, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Ladd, Helen F.

Hansen, Janet S.

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Education Finance.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--United States--Finance.

Education.

Educational productivity--United States.

Educational productivity.

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The United States annually spends over $300 billion on public elementary and secondary education. As the nation enters the 21st century, it faces a major challenge: how best to tie this financial investment to the goal of high levels of achievement for all students. In addition, policymakers want assurance that education dollars are being raised and used in the most efficient and effective possible ways. The book covers such topics as: Legal and legislative efforts to reduce spending and achievement gaps. The shift from "equity" to "adequacy" as a new standard for determining fairness in education spending. The debate and the evidence over the productivity of American schools. Strategies for using school finance in support of broader reforms aimed at raising student achievement. This book contains a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of financing public schools by federal, state, and local governments in the United States. It distills the best available knowledge about the fairness and productivity of expenditures on education and assesses options for changing the finance system.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""Part I Introduction""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Setting the Stage""; ""Part II Fairness and Productivity in School Finance""; ""3 Equity I�Spending on Schools""; ""4 Equity II�The Adequacy of Education""; ""5 Improving the Productivity of Schools""; ""Part III Strategies for Meeting the Goals""; ""6 Achieving Goal 1: Promoting Higher Achievement in a Cost-Efficient Way""; ""7 Achieving Goal 2: Breaking the Nexus""; ""8 Achieving Goal 3: Raising Revenue Fairly and Efficiently""; ""9 Conclusion""; ""References""

""APPENDIX A Data Needs""""APPENDIX B Biographical Sketches""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-333) and index.

ISBN:

9780309172882

0309172888

9780309519250

030951925X

9780585200613

0585200610

OCLC:

923257501