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- catalog abstract ""This book addresses a simple question: Would larger school budgets actually boost student performance? Past research on this question suggests a striking paradox. Analysts typically find that extra spending plays only a negligible role in improving student achievement as measured on standardized tests. At the same time, other researchers find a clear and consistent pattern linking greater school spending with greater job market success among students who have benefited from higher spending." "This book brings together leading scholars with a diversity of views on this important issue. Half the essays examine the relationship between educational resources and student achievement in school; the others evaluate evidence on the link between school resources and students' success after they enter the job market."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b9798957.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description ""This book addresses a simple question: Would larger school budgets actually boost student performance? Past research on this question suggests a striking paradox. Analysts typically find that extra spending plays only a negligible role in improving student achievement as measured on standardized tests. At the same time, other researchers find a clear and consistent pattern linking greater school spending with greater job market success among students who have benefited from higher spending." "This book brings together leading scholars with a diversity of views on this important issue. Half the essays examine the relationship between educational resources and student achievement in school; the others evaluate evidence on the link between school resources and students' success after they enter the job market."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction and summary / Gary Burtless -- School resources and student performance / Eric A. Hanushek -- Have times changed? The relation between school resources and student performance / Larry V. Hedges and Rob Greenwald -- Evidence from fifteen schools in Austin, Texas / Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy -- Labor market effects of school quality : theory and evidence / David Card and Alan B. Krueger -- Is there a link between school inputs and earnings? Fresh scrutiny of an old literature / Julian R. Betts -- Does measured school quality really matter? An examination of the earnings-quality relationship / James Heckman, Anne Layne-Farrar, and Petra Todd.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 296 p. :".
- catalog identifier "081571274X (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0815712758 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "338.4/737/0973 20".
- catalog subject "Academic achievement United States.".
- catalog subject "Education Economic aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Education United States Finance.".
- catalog subject "LC66 .D64 1996".
- catalog subject "Wages Effect of education on United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction and summary / Gary Burtless -- School resources and student performance / Eric A. Hanushek -- Have times changed? The relation between school resources and student performance / Larry V. Hedges and Rob Greenwald -- Evidence from fifteen schools in Austin, Texas / Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy -- Labor market effects of school quality : theory and evidence / David Card and Alan B. Krueger -- Is there a link between school inputs and earnings? Fresh scrutiny of an old literature / Julian R. Betts -- Does measured school quality really matter? An examination of the earnings-quality relationship / James Heckman, Anne Layne-Farrar, and Petra Todd.".
- catalog title "Does money matter? : the effect of school resources on student achievement and adult success / Gary Burtless, editor.".
- catalog type "text".