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Schoolhouses, courthouses, and statehouses : solving the funding-achievement puzzle in America's public schools / Eric A. Hanushek and Alfred A. Lindseth

Author
Hanushek, Eric A. (Eric Alan), 1943-
Published
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (xviii, 411 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Lindseth, Alfred A.
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Contents
Just how important is education? -- U.S. education at a crossroads -- The political responses -- Court interventions in school finance -- Practical issues with educational adequacy -- The effectiveness of judicial remedies -- Science and school finance decision making -- A performance-based funding system -- Making performance-based funding a reality.
Summary
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 i.
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ISBN
9781400830251 (electronic bk.)
1400830257 (electronic bk.)
9780691130002
0691130000
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-393) and index.
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