IAP BOOK SERIES
Conducting Research in Education Finance: Methods, Measurement, and Policy Perspectives
Education in the U.S. is a multi-billion dollar enterprise that encompasses preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions. Tax revenues from the local, state, and federal levels combine to support education across tens of thousands of communities nationwide. In particular, public elementary and secondary schools are charged with educating all children regardless of the challenges and additional costs incurred to ensure equality of educational opportunity. At the same time, many higher education institutions struggle to provide access to families and students of modest economic means by controlling tuition increases without compromising the quality of education students receive. However, tax revenues are limited and must be divided among a host of other public services we value as a society. The role of research in education finance is one that systematically analyzes the equity, adequacy, efficiency, accountability, and stability of education funding so that legislators, policymakers, educators, parents, communities, and other stakeholders can make informed decisions on how best to allocate and deploy fiscal resources to achieve multiple and sometimes competing educational goals. This series is designed to address the challenging issues raised above.
Funding Public Schools in the United States, Indian Country, and US Territories
(Second Edition)
2023Philip Westbrook, University of Alabama; Eric A. Houck, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; R. Craig Wood, University of Florida; David C. Thompson, Kansas State University
Download PDF here- Community Schools: Voices From the Field
- Contemporary Perspectives on Educational Politics and the Law
- Contemporary Perspectives on School Turnaround and Reform
- Current Issues in Out-of-School Time
- Current Perspectives in Demography
- Current Perspectives on School/University/Community Research
- Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural Studies
- Educational Policy and Law
- Educational Policy in the 21st Century: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
- Excursions in Criticality: Education, Cultural Studies and Politics
- Innovation in Human Centered Sustainability
- International Education Inquiries: People, Places, and Perspectives of Education 2030
- International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice
- Issues in the Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice of Urban Education
- Leadership for School Improvement
- Marxist, Socialist, and Communist Studies in Education
- Opportunity and Performance
- Politics of Education Book Series
- Research in Education Fiscal Policy and Practice
- Research in Educational Policy: Local, National, and Global Perspectives
