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Kaplan, Leslie S.; Owings, William A. – Journal of Education Finance, 2013
This article discusses the impact of changing student demographics on financing education and on our national wellbeing. We begin by examining the research of current student demographics and their relationship to learning and education costs. We then calculate a 1% cost factor from the average per-pupil expenditure based on the 2011 "Digest…
Descriptors: Demography, Student Characteristics, Student Diversity, Social Change
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Martins, Lurdes; Veiga, Paula – Economics of Education Review, 2010
This paper measures and decomposes socioeconomic-related inequality in mathematics achievement in 15 European Union member states. Data is taken from the 2003 wave of the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). There is socioeconomic-related inequality in mathematics achievement, favoring the higher socioeconomic groups in each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economics, Economic Factors, Mathematics Achievement
Bennett, Daniel L.; Lucchesi, Adam R.; Vedder, Richard K. – Center for College Affordability and Productivity (NJ1), 2010
During the 2008-2009 academic year, there were nearly 1.8 million students enrolled at more than 2,800 for-profit institutions of higher learning in the United States. Students in for-profit colleges and universities accounted for over 9% of all students enrolled in postsecondary education. The numbers have continued to grow, and today (2010) the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Opportunities, Schools, Economics