Educational Inequality and School Finance
Why Money Matters for America’s Students
Seiten
2018
Harvard Educational Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-68253-242-3 (ISBN)
Harvard Educational Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-68253-242-3 (ISBN)
Offers a comprehensive examination of how US public schools receive and spend money. Drawing on extensive longitudinal data and numerous studies of states and districts, Bruce Baker provides a dismaying portrait of the stagnation of state investment in public education and the challenges of achieving equity and adequacy in school funding.
In Educational Inequality and School Finance, Bruce D. Baker offers a comprehensive examination of how US public schools receive and spend money. Drawing on extensive longitudinal data and numerous studies of states and districts, he provides a vivid and dismaying portrait of the stagnation of state investment in public education and the continuing challenges of achieving equity and adequacy in school funding.
Baker explores school finance, the school and classroom resources derived from school funding, and how and why those resources matter. He provides a critical examination of popular assumptions that undergird the policy discourse around school funding—notably, that money doesn’t matter and that we are spending more and getting less—and shows how these misunderstandings contribute to our reluctance to increase investment in education at a time when the demands on our educational system are rising.
Through an introduction to the concepts of adequacy, equity, productivity, and efficiency, Baker shows how these can be used to evaluate policy reforms. He argues that we know a great deal about the role and importance of money in schools, the mechanisms through which money matters for student outcomes, and the trade-offs involved, and he presents a framework for designing and financing an equitable and adequate public education system, with balanced and stable sources of revenue.
Educational Inequality and School Finance takes an issue all too often relegated to technical experts and makes it accessible for broader public empowerment and engagement.
In Educational Inequality and School Finance, Bruce D. Baker offers a comprehensive examination of how US public schools receive and spend money. Drawing on extensive longitudinal data and numerous studies of states and districts, he provides a vivid and dismaying portrait of the stagnation of state investment in public education and the continuing challenges of achieving equity and adequacy in school funding.
Baker explores school finance, the school and classroom resources derived from school funding, and how and why those resources matter. He provides a critical examination of popular assumptions that undergird the policy discourse around school funding—notably, that money doesn’t matter and that we are spending more and getting less—and shows how these misunderstandings contribute to our reluctance to increase investment in education at a time when the demands on our educational system are rising.
Through an introduction to the concepts of adequacy, equity, productivity, and efficiency, Baker shows how these can be used to evaluate policy reforms. He argues that we know a great deal about the role and importance of money in schools, the mechanisms through which money matters for student outcomes, and the trade-offs involved, and he presents a framework for designing and financing an equitable and adequate public education system, with balanced and stable sources of revenue.
Educational Inequality and School Finance takes an issue all too often relegated to technical experts and makes it accessible for broader public empowerment and engagement.
Bruce D. Baker is a professor in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration at Rutgers Graduate School of Education.
Table of Contents
1. Why Money Matters
2. School Finance 101
3. Money Myths and Misdirections
4. How Schools Use Money
5. School Finance Reforms and Results
6. State Funding Formulas and District Disparities
7. The Erosion of Equity and Adequacy
8. Evaluating Education Innovations
9. Applying High-Quality Cost Analysis to School Finance Policy
10. Equitable, Adequate, and Sustainable School Funding
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.01.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 226 mm |
| Gewicht | 405 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-68253-242-9 / 1682532429 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-68253-242-3 / 9781682532423 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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