COURSE OUTLINE:
1. Introduction: Is there a
problem with public schools, and what is it?
National
Commission on Excellence in Education. 1983. A Nation at Risk: The Imperative of Educational
Reform. Washington, DC: U. S. GPO.
Herbert
Walberg. 1998. "Uncompetitive American Schools:
Causes and Cures.” (and comments) D. Ravitch (ed.) Brookings Papers on
Education Policy 1998. Washington,
DC: The Brookings Institution., pp 173-206.
Alan
Krueger. 1998. "Reassessing the View that American Schools are Broken.
" FRBNY
Economic Policy Review," pp.
29-43.
Education
Week. January 8, 1998. Introduction
to: The
Urban Challenge: Public Education in the 50 States. (The series articles in the issue are a good concise
review of problems with urban education in America. Education Week can be found on Galileo at
Professional Development Collection.)
Jay
Greene and Marcus Winter. 2002. "Public School Graduation Rates in the
United States." The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
2. The benefits of
education and the non-school determinants of student performance:
Elchanan Cohn and Terry Geske. 1990. The
Economics of Education. New York: Pergamon Press,
Chapter 3, pp. 34-47 only.
Barbara Wolfe and Samuel Zuvekas. 1995. "Nonmarket
Outcomes of Schooling." Institute for Research on Poverty, Discussion
Paper no. 1065-95.
Robert Haveman
and Barbara Wolfe. 1994. Succeeding
Generations. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, Chapters 1-2.
3. Policy
Analysis and Education: Modelling the problem using
education production functions
David
Weimer and Aidan Vining. 1992. Policy Analysis: Concepts
and Practice. Second Edition. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, Chapter 8.
Elchanan
Cohn and Terry Geske. 1990. The Economics of Education, Chapter 7 (pp. 159-202).
Robert
Haveman and Barbara Wolfe. 1994. Succeeding Generations: On
the Effects of Investments in Children. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, Chapter 3, "A Tour of Research
Studies.”
4. Does Money Matter? The
effects of school resources on student achievement:
Eric Hanushek.
"School Resources and Student Performance." In Gary Burtless (ed.), Does
Money Matter, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, pp. 43-73.
Richard Murnane
and Frank Levy. 1996. “Evidence from Fifteen Schools in Austin, Texas,” in Gary
Burtless (ed.), Does
Money Matter, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press, pp. 93-96.
Rob Greenwald, Larry Hedges, and Richard Lane.
"When Reinventing the Wheel is Not Necessary: A Case Study in Use of
Meta-Analysis in Education Finance. " Journal of Education Finance. 20: l-20.
Deborah Verstegen
and Richard King. 1998. "The Relationship between School Spending and
Student Achievement: A Review and Analysis of 35 Years of Production Function
Research." Journal of Education
Finance 24(Fall): 243-262.
Ronald Ferguson and Helen Ladd. 1996. ”How and Why
Money Matters,” in Ladd (ed.) Holding Schools Accountable.
Washington, DC: The Brookings
Institution. Chapter
8.
5. Educational Costs and
Economies of Size:
Edward
Muir. 2000-01 "Smaller Schools: How Much More Than a Fad?" American Educator. Winter 2000-2001, pp. 40-46.
Cohn
and Geske, pp. 202-207 (see Seminar 3)
William
Duncombe, John Yinger. 1999
"Performance Standards and Educational Cost Indexes: You Can 't One
Without the Other. " In H. Ladd and R. Chalk and J. Hansen, Equity and Adequacy In
Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. Read pages 260-282.
Matthew
Andrews, William Duncombe, John Yinger.
2002. "Revisiting Economies of Size in American Education: Are We Any
Closer to a Consensus ?" Economics of Education Review 2, 1: 245-262.
Valerie
Lee, Becky Smerdon, Corinne Alfeld-Liro,
Shelly Brown. 1997. "Inside Large and Small High Schools: Curriculum and
Social Relations. " Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 22 (Fall): 147-171.
Valerie
Lee, and Julia Smith. 1997. "High School Size: Which Works Best and for
Whom?" Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis 19 (Fall):
205-227.
6.
Educational Equity and the
Role of the Courts:
Robert Berne and Leanna Stiefel. 1984 The Measurement of Equity in School Finance.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, Chapter 2, pp. 1-20.
William Clune.
1994. “The Shift from Equity to Adequacy in School Finance.” Educational Policy 8 (December): 376-394.
Allan Odden
and Lawrence Picus. 1992. School Finance: A Policy Perspective. New York: McGraw-Hill,
Chapter 2.
William Evans, Sheila
Murray, and Robert Schwab. 1997. "Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and
Statehouses After Serrano." Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management 16 (Winter): 10-31.
7. School Finance - State aid
to school districts:
Kern Alexander and Richard
Salmon. 1995. Public School Finance.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Chapter 9.
Steven Gold, David Smith and
Stephen Lawton. "Overview of Approaches to School Funding." In Public School Finance Programs of the United
States and Canada, 1993-94.
William Duncombe
and John Yinger. 1998. “School Finance Reform: Aid
Formulas and Equity Objectives.” National Tax Journal. 51 (June): 239-262.
8.
Education Research and
Program Evaluation:
Carol
Taylor Fitz-Gibbon and Lynn Lyons Morris, How To Design a Program
Evaluation. Newbury Park, CA: Sage,
Chapters l-4.
Jens
Ludwig. 2001. "Problems in the Estimation of School Effects: Insights from
Improved Models." In David Monk, Herbert Walberg,
and Margaret Wang (eds.)2001. Improving Educational Productivity. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Lois-Lynn Stoyko Deuel. 1999. "Block Scheduling in Large, Urban High
Schools: Effects on Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, and Staff
Perceptions.” High
School Journal volume 83.
Jennifer King Rice, Robert Croninger,
and Christopher Roelke. 2002. "The Effect of
Block Scheduling High School Mathematics Courses on Student Achievement and
Teacher 's Use of Time: Implications for Educational Productivity. Economics
of Education Review 21: 599-607.
9. Traditional Approaches
to Improving Public Schools: Class Size Reduction
Jeremy
Finn and Charles Achilles. 1999. "Tennessee 's Class Size Study: Findings,
Implications, Misconceptions. " Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 21 (Summer): 97-109.
Eric
Hanushek. 1999. "Some Findings From an
Independent Investigation of the Tennessee STAR Experiment and from Other
Investigations of Class Size Effects. " Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
21 (Summer): 143-163.
Alan
Krueger. 2000. "Economic Considerations and Class Size. " Working
Paper #447, Princeton University Industrial Relations Section.
Alan
Krueger and Diane Whitmore. 2000. "The Effect of Attending a Small Class
in the
Early
Grades on College-Test Taking and Middle School Test Results: Evidence from
Project
STAR."
National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper 7656. Cambridge, MA: NBER.
10.
School Governance and School-Based
Management:
Education
Week. 1999. "Who 's In Charge
". November 17, pp. 27-41.
Education
Week. 2000. "British 'Heads'
Reign with Broad Power." September 20,1,14-17.
Richard
Elmore. 1995. "Structural Reform and Educational Practice. " Educational Researcher. December: pp. 23-26.
David
Tyack. 1993. "School Governance in the United
States: Historical Puzzles and Anomalies." in J Hannaway
and M. Carnoy (eds.) Decentralization and School
Improvement, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Rodney
Ogawa and Paula White. 1994. "School-Based Management: An Overview."
S. Mohrman, and P. Wohlstetter
(eds.)School-Based
Management: Organizing for High Performance, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Anthony Bryk. 1999.
"Policy Lessons from Chicago 's Experience with Decentralization. In D. Ravitch (ed.)Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 1999. Washington DC: The Brookings Institution, 67-109.
11. School Choice, and Market-Based Reforms:
Gary
Ritter and Christopher Lucas. 2002.. "The 'Common School' Fallacy." Education Week October 23'd.
Several
articles in Education
Week on Supreme Court decision on
Cleveland voucher program.
John
Chubb and Terry Moe. 1990. Politics, Markets and Americas Schools, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, Chapter 2.
Henry
Levin. 1987. "Education as a Public and Private Good. " Journal of Policy Analysis
and Management. 6: 628-641.
John
Witte. 2000. The
Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 2.
Helen
Ladd. 2001. "Market-Based Reforms in Urban Education. "
12. Evidence
on the Impact of Different School Choice Approaches:
Rand
Research Brief, 2001. "What Do We Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools.
" Full report, "Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We
Need to Know About
Vouchers
and Charter Schools, " is available on the RAND website,
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MRl
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Jeffrey
Henig. 1999. "School Choice Outcomes." In
S. Sugarman, and Frank Kemerer
(eds.) School
Choice and Social Controversy. Washington
DC: Brookings Institution, Chapter 3.
Caroline
Minter Hoxby. 2002. "School Choice and School
Productivity (Or Could School Choice Be a Tide That Lifts All Boats). "
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 8873, April, pp. 30-74.
Alejandra
Mizala and Pilar Romaguera. 2000. "School Performance and Choice: The
Chilean Experience." Journal of Human Resources 35: pp.
392-4 17.
Randall
Eberts and Kevin Hollenbeck.
2002. "Impact of Charter School Attendance on Student Achievement in
Michigan. "Upjohn Institute Staff Working Paper No. 02-080.
13.
Statewide Performance
Standards and School Accountability:
Education
Week. 2000. "A Test Is
Born." April 20, 32-36.
Daniel
Koretz. 1996. "Using Student Assessments for
Educational Accountability. " in E. Hanushek and
D. Jorgenson (eds.)Improving America 's Schools: The Role of Incentives, Washington DC: National Academy Press.
Eric
Hanushek. 2001. "The Confusing World of
Educational Accountability." National Tax Journal. June (54): 365-384.
Helen
Ladd. 2001. "School-Based Educational Accountability Systems: The Promise
and the Pitfalls." National Tax Journal. June
(54): 385-400.
Amy
Ellen Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel.
2001. "Measuring School Efficiency. " In David Monk, Herbert Walberg, and Margaret Wang (eds.) 2001. Improving Educational
Productivity. Greenwich, CT:
Information Age Publishing.
14. Evaluating
Accountability Systems:
Helen
Ladd. 1999. "The Dallas School Accountability and Incentive
Program: An Evaluation of its Impacts on Student Outcomes." Economics of Education
Review. 18:
l-l6.
Stephen
Samuel Smith and Roslyn Arlin Mickelson. 2000.
"All That Glitters Is Not Gold: School Reform in
Charlotte-Mecklenburg." Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 22 (Summer): 101-127.
Bruce
Jacob. 2001. "Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation
Exams." Educational
Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 23: 99-121.
Brian Jacob. 2002. "Test-Based Accountability and Student Achievement Gains: Theory and Evidence."
15. Teacher Labor Markets: Effects on Recruitment and Retention:
Susanna
Loeb. 2000. "Teacher Quality: Its Enhancement
and Potential for Improving Pupil Achievement." In David Monk, Herbert Walberg, and Margaret Wang (eds.)2001. Improving Educational
Productivity. Greenwich, CT:
Information Age Publishing.
Robin
Henke, et. al., 1997. "America 's Teachers: Profile of a Profession,
1993-94." NCES 97-460, Chapter 8.
Hamilton
Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff. 2002.
"Teacher Sorting and the
Plight
of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis. " Educational Evaluation and
Policy Analysis. 24: 37-62.
Richard
Murnane, Judith Singer and John Willet. 1988.
"The Career Paths of Teachers: Implications for Teacher Supply and
Methodological Lessons for Research." Educational Researcher, August-September
Dale Ballou and Michael Podgursky.
1998. "Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Public
and
Private Schools." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 17: 393-417.
16. Teacher compensation and evaluation:
Richard
Murnane and David Cohen. 1986. "Merit Pay and
the Evaluation Problem: Why Most Merit Pay Plans Fail and a Few Survive." Harvard Educational
Review 56: 1
-17.
Carolyn
Kelley and Allan Odden. 2000. "Addressing
Teacher Quality and Supply Through Compensation Policy." Paper prepared
for the New York State Education Finance Consortium.
Dale
Ballou. 2001. "Pay for Performance in Public and
Private Schools.” Economics of Education Review 20: 5 l-61.
17.
Compensatory Education and Comprehensive
Education Reform:
Herbert Walberg
and Rebecca Greenberg. “The Diogenes Factor: Why It’s
Hard to Get an Unbiased View of Programs Like Success for All”. Education Week. April 8, 1998.
W. Steve Barnett. 1996.
“Economics of School Reform: Three Promising Models.” in Ladd (ed), Holding
Schools Accountable. Chapter 9.
Elizabeth Jones, Gary Gottfredson and Denise Gottfredson.
1997. "Success for Some: An Evaluation of Success for All Program." Evaluation Review 21 (December):
643-670.
American Institutes of Research. 1999. An Educator's Guide to Schoolwide Reform. Arlington, VA: Educational Research Service, introduction, overview, and sections on each program. The full report is available on the web through the web site for the American Association of School Administrators, www.aasa.org/Reform/index.htm