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Improving educational productivity / edited by David H. Monk, Herb J. Walberg, Margaret C. Wang.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research in educational productivity ; volume 1.
- Research in educational productivity ; volume 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational productivity--United States--Congresses.
- Educational productivity.
- Education--Economic aspects--United States--Congresses.
- Education.
- Education--United States--Finance--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Covering such issues as teaching quality, the interface between public and private schooling, and measuring school efficiency, this text addresses the improvement of educational productivity in the USA.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2. Tax Revolts and School Performance; Chapter 3. State Aid and Education Outcomes ; Chapter 4. The Interface between Public and Private Schooling: Market Pressure and the Impact on Performance ; Chapter 5. The Economics of Grade Retention ; Chapter 6. Teacher Quality: Its Enhancement and Potential for Improving Pupil Achievement ; Chapter 7. Measuring School Efficiency: Lessons from Economics, Implications for Practice ; Chapter 8. Examining School-Level Expenditures and School Performance: The Case of New York City
- Chapter 9. The Relationship between Student Performance and School Expenditures: A Review of the Literature and New Evidence Using Better Data Chapter 10. Exploring the Nexus between Educational Inputs, Distribution of Performance, and Incentives ; Chapter 11. Problems in the Estimation of School Effects: Insights from Improved Models ; Chapter 12. Conclusions and Recommendations
- Notes:
- Edited conference papers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786611383978
- 9781281383976
- 128138397X
- 9781607527909
- 1607527901
- OCLC:
- 923172558
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