Does Money Matter?
Subtitle: The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: May 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780815712749
Subjects: Funding of education; Microeconomics; Evaluation; Academic Success Prediction; Economics Of Education; Education / Teaching; Education; Finance; Economic aspects; Academic achievement; United States
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.