School Finance and Teacher Quality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook School Finance and Teacher Quality write by Margaret L. Plecki. This book was released on 2014-01-09. School Finance and Teacher Quality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The yearbook is organized around four issues, each of which can be viewed as representing an important focal point to improve teacher and teaching quality and having important implications for school finance. The issues are (1) teacher recruitment, induction, and retention; (2) the ongoing porfessional development of teachers; (3) equity in the allocation of teaching resources; (4) teacher compensation and workplace conditions.
Teacher Quality
Teacher Quality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teacher Quality write by Jennifer King Rice. This book was released on 2003. Teacher Quality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Teacher quality is the single most important school-related factor influencing student success. The author examines the body of research on the subject of teacher quality to draw conclusions about which attributes makes teachers most effective, (experience, preparation programs and degrees, type of certification, specific coursework taken in preparation for the profession, and teachers' own test scores), with a focus on aspects of teacher quality that can be translated into policy recommendations and incorporated into teaching practice.
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses write by Eric A. Hanushek. This book was released on 2009-04-27. Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Improving public schools through performance-based funding Spurred 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.
Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality
Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality write by Dale Ballou. This book was released on 1997. Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks whether higher salaries have improved the quality of newly recruited teachers. It reviews data on the characteristics of beginning teachers and shows how important features of the labor market for teachers systematically undermine efforts to improve teacher quality. The text also offers a comparison of personnel policies and staffing patterns in public and private schools, focusing on national trends in teacher recruitment. It discusses ways to measure teacher quality, examines several indicators of quality, such as student achievement and principals' ratings of their staffs, and then uses these findings to assess the evidence on salary growth and teacher recruitment. It looks at what has gone wrong with teacher recruitment and offers an analysis of the operation of the teacher labor market so as to interpret findings. These results are used to review the implications for teacher recruitment of various other reforms of current interest. The text also describes the prospects for reform by examining salary differentiation and rising standards and assesses personnel policies in the private sector to see whether private schools offer a model for reforming public education. This section details teacher quality, working conditions, and compensation policies. The book concludes with a summation of its major points. (Contains an index, approximately 315 references, 12 data tables and 17 figures.) (RJM)
Financing Quality Education for All
Financing Quality Education for All - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Financing Quality Education for All write by Kristof De Witte. This book was released on 2019-09-11. Financing Quality Education for All available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Funding, efficiency, and equity in education In OECD countries the average expenditure on primary and secondary education institutions is about 3.5% of GDP. The investment in education has large implications for economic development and the proper functioning of democratic institutions, as well as overall well-being. However, clear consensus and guidance on which system leads to the best educational outcomes is lacking. This volume describes the resource allocation for compulsory and special needs education for a selection of well-performing countries and regions on PISA tests. By studying the funding systems in well-performing countries and regions the authors identify the elements in the respective funding systems that are associated with best outcomes and have the ideal characteristics to pursue particular goals of education systems such as equity and efficiency. The funding methods of primary and secondary education as well as special needs education are covered. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
