This volume revisits educational equality and equity issues, especially, in education finance-related topics consisting of 15 chapters and organized in two parts. The first part of the volume entitled “Education Finance”, focuses on equity aspects of resource allocation and its influence on education. The second part, entitled “Educational Equality and Equity”, focuses on the conceptualization, and the measurements of educational inequity, and inequality with special emphasis on the cost of inequality. The field of education finance has been significantly influencing policy-makers in many countries in recent years. This volume is focused on equity and equality in education finance in an international frame. This book would be of interest to (1) scholars at the fields of education finance, economics of education, and educational policy, (2) graduate students at the course of school finance or economics of education, and (3) local and global policy makers at the fields of education policy, and education finance.
This book is an important resource for educators, professionals, school administrators, researchers, and practitioners in the field of education.
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.
Equality of Educational Opportunity (Coleman Report), 14-15, 27, 35,267 Equity concepts adequacy distinguished from, ... 218-232 district power equalizing (DPE), 17-18, 28, 38, 46-47,49, 50-51, 81, 83, 94, 184184 district response to, ...
School Finance and Education Policy: Enhancing Educational Efficiency, Equality, and Choice
" --Helen F. Ladd, Susan B. King Professor Emerita of Public Policy and Economics, Sanford School, Duke University "This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about public education.
Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. This book presents a series of policy recommendations for education systems to help all children succeed.
Bruce Baker unlocks this mystery in this engrossing book that describes the state's unique constitutional structure, and the politics and the personalities--often women in key positions--that brought this to fruition.
No More Failures challenges the assumption that there will always be failures and dropouts, those who can’t or won’t make it in school. It provides ten concrete policy measures for reducing school failure and dropout rates.
The report examines how equity in education has evolved over several cycles of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA).
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