{"product_id":"schoolhouses-courthouses-and-statehouses-solving-the-fundingachievement-puzzle-in-americas-public-schools-9780691130002","title":"Schoolhouses Courthouses and Statehouses  Solving","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpurred by court rulings requiring states to increase public-school funding, the US spends more per student on K-12 education than almost any other country. This work traces the history of reform efforts and concludes that the principal focus of both courts and legislatures on ever-increasing funding has done little to improve student achievement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010 \"It is enlightening, maddening, hopeful, frustrating and amazingly informative... The book provides a terrific summary of how the U.S. education system has changed since World War II. It makes a telling argument about how much our well-being depends on our schools. It eviscerates the policymaking that has ruled public education for the last half century. And it buries for all time the notion that getting the courts to fix our schools has any chance of success.\"--Jay Mathews, Washington Post \"Hanushek and Lindseth conclusively enlighten policy makers, professors, school administrators, legal and educational researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students of school administration by providing an exhaustive discussion of decades of school funding and the results for student achievement... The authors' experience and expertise in school funding, research, and data analysis and their ideas for the future of funding and accountability make this an absolute must read.\"--Choice \"This important new book by economist Eric Hanushek and attorney Alfred Lindseth is the most cogent and comprehensive analysis of America's school-finance challenges that I have ever seen.\"--Chester Finn, Jr., Education Gadfly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix  List of Tables xiii  Preface xv  Introduction 1      Chapter 1: Just How Important Is Education? 10  Education and Financial Achievement 11  Education and Poverty 15  Education and the Nation's Economic Well-Being 16  Testing Student Skills 20  Quality of U.S. Colleges 21      Chapter 2: U.S. Education at a Crossroads 23  Years of School Completed 23  Achievement Levels (or the Mastery of Cognitive Skills) 29  International Comparisons 36  Achievement Gaps 38      Chapter 3: The Political Responses 44  Increased Spending and Resources for K-12 Education 45  Increased Equity in Funding for K-12 Education 57  The Standards and Accountability Movement 71  Increased School Choice Options 76  Teacher Certification 80  Conclusions 82      Chapter 4: Court Interventions in School Finance 83  Federal Desegregation Litigation and Milliken II Remedies 84  \"Equity\" Cases 88  \"Adequacy\" Cases 95      Chapter 5: Practical Issues with Educational Adequacy 118  Defining an \"Adequate\" Education 118  The Element of Causation 129  Problems Relating to Remedy 136  Problems Inherent in the Makeup and Processes of the Courts 139      Chapter 6: The Effectiveness of Judicial Remedies 145  Kentucky 147  Wyoming 151  New Jersey 157  Massachusetts 166      Chapter 7: Science and School Finance Decision Making 171  A Simple Decision Model 172  How Much Is Enough? 173  How Should the Money Be Spent? 200  Using Science More Effectively 211      Chapter 8: A Performance-Based Funding System 217  Guiding Principles: Back to Basics 218  A Performance-Based Funding System 219  Big City Schools 258  Conclusions 260      Chapter 9: Making Performance-Based Funding a Reality 263  The Persistence of Illusory Spending Solutions 263  Support for the Status Quo and Resistance to Change 268  Some Current Countervailing Forces 275  Encouraging True Reform: Mutually Agreed Bargains 279  Changing the Focus of the Courts 281  Mobilizing for the Future 287      Notes 291  Legal Citations 353  Federal Court Cases (arranged in alphabetical order) 353  State Court Cases (arranged by state and, within states, chronologically) 354  Sources for Figures and Tables 361  References 363  Index 395","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359107711319,"sku":"9780691130002","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691130002.jpg?v=1754123617","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/schoolhouses-courthouses-and-statehouses-solving-the-fundingachievement-puzzle-in-americas-public-schools-9780691130002","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}