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Twenty-five Years of Data on Educational Funding and Student Achievement: What Does It Mean?
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Lockwood, Robert E.; McLean, James E. – Educational Research Quarterly, 1997
Research conducted over the past 25 years on the relationship between the funding of education and student achievement is analyzed and synthesized. Once a base level of funding has been provided, judicious spending should be evidenced in improved student achievement, up to an optimum point. Implications for educational spending are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Factors, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Do Funding Inequities Produce Educational Disparity? Research Issues in the Alabama Case.
Ross, Steven M.; Smith, Lana J.; Nunnery, John; Douzenis, Cordelia; Trentham, Landa L.; McLean, James E. – Research in the Schools, 1994
As part of the legal defense in an educational-disparity court case in Alabama, school resources and conditions and teacher and principal attitudes were studied in 45 school districts. Findings from all sources show disparities favoring wealthy schools on about 84% of the variables examined. Research impact on the trial is discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
The Urban-Rural Funding Disparity.
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McLean, James E.; Ross, Steven M. – 1994
As part of litigation challenging the equity and adequacy of school funding in Alabama, educational resources and school conditions were examined in the highest and lowest funded school districts in the state. Identification of these districts revealed that all eight of the highest funded districts were urban systems, while all eight of the lowest…
Descriptors: Building Obsolescence, Educational Environment, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Resources