Research Catalog

Title

Improving America's schools : the role of incentives / edited by Eric A. Hanushek and Dale W. Jorgenson.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1996.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hanushek, Eric A. (Eric Alan), 1943-
• Jorgenson, Dale W. (Dale Weldeau), 1933-

Description

viii, 268 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and Americans' standard of living. Yet few if any of the public school reform agendas incorporate economic principles or research findings. Improving America's Schools explores how education and economic research can help produce a unified framework for future education reform. This book presents the perspectives of noted experts on such issues as creating incentives for improved school and student performance, education reform programs, and education of the disadvantaged. It explores the importance of schooling for labor market success; the prospects for combining school-based management with teacher incentives to gain the best of both approaches; the potential of recent innovations in student achievement testing, including new "value-added" indicators; and the economic factors involved in maintaining an adequate stock of effective teachers.
• Improving America's Schools also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement.

Subject

• School management and organization > United States
• Educational change > United States
• School improvement programs > United States
• Educational change
• School improvement programs
• School management and organization
• Qualitätssteigerung
• Schule
• Schule
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Research-based school reform: the Clinton administration's agenda / Marshall S. Smith, Brett W. Scoll, and Jeffrey Link -- Outcomes, costs, and incentives in schools / Eric A. Hanushek -- Changes in the structure of wages / Brooks Pierce and Finis Welch -- The Effects of school-based management plans / Anita A. Summers and Amy W. Johnson -- Management decentralization and performance-based incentives: theoretical considerations for schools / Jane Hannaway -- Signaling, incentives, and school organization in France, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States / John H. Bishop -- Public school partnerships: community, family, and school factors in determining child outcomes / Rebecca Maynard with Meredith Kelsey -- Using student assessments for educational accountability / Daniel Koretz -- Value-added indicators of school performance / Robert H. Meyer -- Economics of school reform for at-risk students / Henry M. Levin -- Staffing the nation's schools with skilled teachers / Ricahrd J. Murnane.

ISBN

• 0309054362
• 9780309054362
• 0815734255
• 9780815734253

LCCN

• 96044606
• ZBWT00852312

OCLC

• ocm35762687
• 35762687
• SCSB-2101474

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library