Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses : Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanushek, Eric A. (Eric Alan), 1943-
Other Authors: Lindseth, Alfred A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Student
Finanzierung
Öffentliche Schule
Studienerfolg
Public schools > Finance.
Academic achievement.
EDUCATION > Finance.
Écoles publiques > États-Unis > Finances.
Academic achievement > United States.
Public schools > United States > Finance.
USA.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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