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050 00 $aLB2825$b.M13 1999
245 00 $aMaking money matter :$bfinancing America's schools /$cHelen F. Ladd and Janet S. Hansen, editors ; Committee on Education Finance, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council.
260 $aWashington, D.C. :$bNational Academy Press,$cc1999.
300 $axiii, 352 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 326-333) and index.
505 0 $aFairness and Productivity in School Finance -- Strategies for Meeting the Goals -- Shifting Expectations of School Finance -- Education, Values, and the Role of Expertise -- Roles and Responsibilities in American Education -- Facilitating Higher Levels of Achievement for All Students in a Cost-Efficient Manner -- Breaking the Nexus Between Student Background Characteristics and Student Achievement -- Raising Revenues Fairly and Efficiently -- Strategies for Meeting the Goals -- Fairness and Productivity in School Finance -- Equity I--Spending on Schools -- The Meaning of Equity -- Pursuing Finance Equity Through the Courts -- Other Approaches to Spending Equity -- Reform and Spending Inequities -- Equity at the Dawn of the New Century -- Equity II--The Adequacy of Education -- Possible Meanings of Adequacy -- The Shift Toward Adequacy -- State Responses to the Adequacy Movement -- Conceptual and Technical Challenges -- Promises and Pitfalls -- Improving the Productivity of Schools -- Defining and Measuring Productivity -- Understanding Educational Productivity -- Using Finance-Related Strategies to Improve School Performance -- Strategies for Meeting the Goals -- Achieving Goal 1: Promoting Higher Achievement in a Cost-Efficient Way -- Reducing Funding Inequities and Inadequacies -- Investing in Capacity -- Changing Incentives to Make Performance Count -- Empowering Schools or Parents or Both to Make Decisions About the Use of Public Funds -- Achieving Goal 2: Breaking the Nexus -- Reducing Funding Inequities and Inadequacies -- Investing in Capacity -- Changing Incentives to Make Performance Count -- Empowering Schools or Parents or Both to Make Decisions About the Use of Public Funds -- Achieving Goal 3: Raising Revenue Fairly and Efficiently -- Evaluation of the Property Tax -- Should the Mix of Local Taxes Be Changed? -- Would State Taxes Be Better? -- Should States Play a Bigger Role in Revenue Raising? -- Should a Greater Share of Funding for Education Come from the Federal Government? -- Balancing Values -- Focusing on Adequacy -- Promoting Fair Spending and Revenue Raising -- Making Money Matter More -- New Research Initiatives for Urban Areas -- Data Needs.
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650 0 $aEducational productivity$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEducational equalization$zUnited States.
650 0 $aEducational change$zUnited States.
700 1 $aLadd, Helen F.
700 1 $aHansen, Janet S.
710 2 $aNational Research Council (U.S.).$bCommittee on Education Finance.
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