Preface
Helen F. Ladd and Margaret E. Goertz
I. PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION FINANCE AND POLICY
Section Editors: Margaret E. Goertz and Helen F. Ladd
1 History and Scholarship Regarding United States Education Finance and Policy
Matthew G. Springer, Eric A. Houck, and James W. Guthrie
2 The Role of Economics in Education Policy Research
Dominic J. Brewer, Guilbert C. Hentschke and Eric R. Eide
with Tenice Hardaway and Tien Le
3 The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of Educational Finance Reform Litigation
William S. Koski and Jesse Hahnel
4 The Continually Evolving Political Context of Education Finance
James W. Guthrie and Kenneth K. Wong
5 Educational Goals: A Public Perspective
Rebecca Jacobsen and Richard Rothstein
6 Quantitative Research Methods in Education Finance and Policy
Patrick J. McEwan
7 International Large-Scale Assessments: Uses and Implications
Stephen P. Heyneman and Bommi Lee
II. MAKING MONEY MATTER
Section Editor: Jennifer King Rice
8 Toward an Understanding of Productivity in Education
Jennifer King Rice and Amy Ellen Schwartz
9 Cost-Benefit Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Clive Belfield
10 Teachers Clearly Matter, but Finding Effective Teacher Policies Has Proven Challenging
Dan Goldhaber
11 Teacher Evaluation for Accountability and Development
Morgaen L. Donaldson and John P. Papay
12 School Accountability and Student Achievement
David N. Figlio and Helen F. Ladd
13 School Competition and Student Outcomes
Brian Gill and Kevin Booker
III. PROMOTING EQUITY AND ADEQUACY
Section Editor: Leanna Stiefel
14 Conceptions of Equity and Adequacy in School Finance
Bruce D. Baker and Preston C. Green
15 Measuring Equity and Adequacy in School Finance
Thomas A. Downes and Leanna Stiefel
16 Measurement of Cost Differentials
William D. Duncombe, Phuong Nguyen-Hoang and John Yinger
17 Intergovernmental Aid Formulas and Case Studies
Lawrence O. Picus, Margaret E. Goertz and Allan Odden
18 Education Equity in an International Context
Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd
IV. CHANGING PATTERNS OF GOVERNANCE AND FINANCE
Section Editor: Andrew Reschovsky
19 The Changing Federal Role in Education Finance and Governance
Nora E. Gordon
20 The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations in Financing Public Schools
Janet S. Hansen, Michelle Hall, Dominic Brewer and Jane Hannaway
21 Equity, Adequacy and the Evolving State Role in Education Finance
Sean P. Corcoran and William N. Evans
22 Local Funding of Schools: The Property Tax and Its Alternatives
Therese J. McGuire, Leslie E. Papke and Andrew Reschovsky
23 Tax and Expenditure Limits, School Finance and School Quality
Thomas A. Downes and David N. Figlio
V. EDUCATIONAL MARKETS AND DECENTRALIZATION
Section Editors: Henry M. Levin and Ron Zimmer
24 Issues in Educational Privatization
Henry M. Levin
25 Charter Schools
Robert Bifulco and Katrina Bulkley
26 Beyond the Rhetoric: Surveying the Evidence on Vouchers and Tax Credits
Ron Zimmer and Eric P. Bettinger
27 Emerging Alternatives to Neighborhood-based Public Schooling
Joshua M. Cowan and Eugenia F. Toma
VI. RACE, SES AND ACHIEVEMENT GAPS
Section Editor: Susanna Loeb
28 Patterns and Trends in Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Academic
Achievement Gaps
Sean F. Reardon, Joseph P. Robinson-Cimpian and Ericka S. Weathers
29 Early Childhood and the Achievement Gap
Daphna Bassok and Susanna Loeb
30 Increasing the Effectiveness of Teachers in Low-Performing Schools
Melinda Adnot and James Wyckoff
31 Effects of Educational Policies on Disadvantaged Students: From Desegregation
to Accountability
Douglas N. Harris
VII. SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Section Editor: David H. Monk
32 Special Education
Tom Parrish, Jenifer J. Harr-Robins, and Jay G. Chambers
33 Resource Needs for Educating Linguistic Minority Students
Russell W. Rumberger and Patricia Gándara
34 Challenges and Strategies Associated with Rural School Settings
John W. Sipple and Brian O. Brent
35 The Organizational and Fiscal Implications of Transient Student Populations
Kieran M. Killeen and Kai A. Schafft
36 Bridging the High School-College Divide
Thomas R. Bailey and Melinda Mechur Karp
