IMPROVING AMERICA'S SCHOOLS by Eric A. Hanushek (Editor), Dale W. Jorgenson (Editor), Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy ( 9780309054362 )

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Title:

IMPROVING AMERICA'S SCHOOLS
THE ROLE OF INCENTIVES

By:

Eric A. Hanushek (Editor), Dale W. Jorgenson (Editor), Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy

Format:

Hardback

List price:	£39.00
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ISBN 10:

0309054362

ISBN 13:

9780309054362

Publisher:

NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS

Pub. date:

7 November, 1996

Pages:

280

Description:

Explores how education and economic research can help produce, in the words of Harvard's Dale W Jorgenson, "a unified framework for future education reform." This book also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement.

Synopsis:

Reform of American education is largely motivated by concerns about our economic competitiveness and American's 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, in the words of Harvard's Dale W. Jorgenson, "a unified framework for future education reform." This book presents the perspectives of noted experts, including Eric A. Hanushek, author of Making Schools Work, on creating incentives for improved school and student performance; Under Secretary of Education Marshall S. Smith on the Clinton Administration's reform program; and Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania, on the education of the disadvantaged. This volume explores these areas The importance of schooling to 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. The economic factors involved in maintaining an adequate stock of effective teachers.The volume also explores why, despite similar standards of living, France, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, and the United States produce different levels of education achievement. Improving America's Schools informs the current debate over school reform with a fresh perspective, examples, and data. This readable volume will be of interest to policymakers, researchers, educators, and education administrators as well as economists and employers--it is also readily accessible to concerned parents and the larger community.

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