Schoolhouses, courthouses, and statehouses : solving the funding-achievement puzzle in America's public schools /
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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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Table des matières:
- 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.