In the passionate debates over providing equal educational opportunity for all children, it's frequently argued that large financial inequities create challenges for many public schools, particularly those in lower-income urban areas. This study compares the revenues and operating expenditures of Michigan's urban, suburban, town and rural school…

Using fiscal data provided by the finance office of the school district, and personnel data obtained from the California Basic Education Data System (maintained by the California Department of Education, or CDE), the authors present analyses to provide a foundation for local policymakers that may be used to assess whether there are inequities in…

Discusses possible models for assessing the optionality of resource allocation in secondary education. Concludes that a suboptionalization model that requires the administrator to weigh the consequences of varying three inputs at most simultaneously offers a more promising tool for educational decisionmaking than the production function method.…

Since the 1980s, the increasing cost of education has been a global trend, and there is a growing demand for increasing efficiency in different countries. As a result, education economists began focusing on the issue of efficient allocation of educational resources and borrowed production function from economics to study educational production…

A survey of literature regarding production functions or the technical relationships between the inputs and outputs of education. The survey includes the methodology for establishing production functions, the problems associated with establishing such functions, and the application of production functions in educational planning at macro and micro…

Without a conscious effort to achieve optimum resource allocation, there is a real danger that educational resources may be wasted. This document uses input-output analysis to develop a model for rational decision-making in secondary education. (LLR)

Input/output analysis is a significant tool for rational resource allocation in higher education. (Author/RA)

The NSF's University Science Statistics Program Integrated Data Base and CHI Research's bibliometric database were used in a study of the relationships among research resources, as measured by R&D expenditures, and research output, as measured by the quantity and visibility of scientific journal articles. (Author/MLW)

Describes and provides a simulation of an input-output, goal-programing technique that uses efficiency criteria as prerequisites for state aid payments and provides for the sharing of managerial know-how between the state and local school districts. (Author/IRT)

Information about the world and how it works is often hard to locate and difficult to understand. The objectives and activities in this teaching guide were developed to complement the "World Military and Social Expenditures" (WMSE) report in the study of global issues in secondary school classrooms. The report contains well-documented and…

By making explicit the implicit assumptions about program costs and benefits, resource allocation in a nonprofit organization could be simplified. A rational scheme for implementing such a program might begin by using detailed interviews with program administrators to determine input and output scales. Following this, respondents could choose…

Resource allocation within education systems is approached from the perspective of economic theory and input-output processes. It is suggested that economic concepts of efficiency and productivity focus attention on factors affecting effective use of resources and should be systematically encouraged. (Author/MSE)

Mathematical model building for educational planning in this country has been heavily influenced by the USOE DYNAMOD Model, a computerized Markov-type or input-output model. However, the input-output method is structurally inadequate to reflect the true behavior of the educational system. To introduce some elements of decision making into the…

Resource acquisition is a general process active in all social organizations. The relative success of organizational resource mobilization determines whose goals and values will be met. Several factors impinge on resource mobilization, including suborganizational levels, technological sophistication, professionalization, and unionization.…

Resource optimization in building design is based on the total system over its expected useful life. Alternative environmental systems can be evaluated in terms of resource costs and goal effectiveness. (Author/MF)