School Staff Autonomy and Educational Performance: Within-School-Type Evidence

Educational Equity and School Structure: School Size, Overcrowding, and Schools-Within- Schools

Consistent with the Williams v. California suit, our focus in this article is on educational equity, particularly the interface between equity and school organization. We concentrate on two structural issues, school size and school overcrowding, and one specific school structure, schools-within-schools. We organize the article as an interpretive summary of existing studies of these topics, conc...

School Culture and School Performance

THE EiellECTS OF SCHOOL SPENDING ON EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM SCHOOL FINANCE REFORMS*

Since the Coleman Report, many have questioned whether public school spending affects student outcomes. The school finance reforms that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused dramatic changes to the structure of K-12 education spending in the United States. To study the effect of these school finance reform—induced changes in public school spending on long-run adult outcom...

The Effects of School Spending on Educational and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from School Finance Reforms

Since the Coleman Report, many have questioned whether public school spending affects student outcomes. The school finance reforms that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused dramatic changes to the structure of K–12 education spending in the United States. To study the effect of these school finance reform–induced changes in public school spending on long-run adult outcom...

Educational Performance and Charter School Authorizers: The Accountability Bind

Charter schools involve a trading of autonomy for accountability. This accountability comes through two forces—markets through the choices of parents and students, and accountability to government through the writing of contracts that must be renewed for schools to continue to operate. Charter schools are supposed to be more accountable for educational performance than traditional public school...