LEADER 03933nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910455238903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-15794-9 010 $a9786612157943 010 $a1-4008-3025-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400830251 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788462 035 $a(EBL)457723 035 $a(OCoLC)438732520 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000241944 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11217918 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000241944 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10310376 035 $a(PQKB)10442866 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457723 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43058 035 $a(DE-B1597)453678 035 $a(OCoLC)979757799 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400830251 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457723 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312456 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215794 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788462 100 $a20081216d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSchoolhouses, courthouses, and statehouses$b[electronic resource] $esolving the funding-achievement puzzle in America's public schools /$fEric A. Hanushek and Alfred A. Lindseth 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (432 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-13000-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tTables -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Just How Important Is Education? -- $t2. U.S. Education at a Crossroads -- $t3. The Political Responses -- $t4. Court Interventions in School Finance -- $t5. Practical Issues with Educational Adequacy -- $t6. The Effectiveness of Judicial Remedies -- $t7. Science and School Finance Decision Making -- $t8. A Performance-Based Funding System -- $t9. Making Performance-Based Funding a Reality -- $tNotes -- $tLegal Citations -- $tSources for Figures and Tables -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aSpurred 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 of them are failing, and poor and minority students remain far behind their more advantaged peers. In this book, Eric Hanushek and Alfred Lindseth trace the history of reform efforts and conclude that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement. Instead, Hanushek and Lindseth propose a new approach: a performance-based system that directly links funding to success in raising student achievement. This system would empower and motivate educators to make better, more cost-effective decisions about how to run their schools, ultimately leading to improved student performance. Hanushek and Lindseth have been important participants in the school funding debate for three decades. Here, they draw on their experience, as well as the best available research and data, to show why improving schools will require overhauling the way financing, incentives, and accountability work in public education. 606 $aPublic schools$zUnited States$xFinance 606 $aAcademic achievement$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPublic schools$xFinance. 615 0$aAcademic achievement 676 $a379.1/220973 700 $aHanushek$b Eric A$g(Eric Alan),$f1943-$0121192 701 $aLindseth$b Alfred A$01047065 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455238903321 996 $aSchoolhouses, courthouses, and statehouses$92474417 997 $aUNINA