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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Tables | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Just How Important Is Education? | |
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| Education and Financial Achievement | |
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| Education and Poverty | |
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| Education and the Nation's Economic Well-Being | |
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| Testing Student Skills | |
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| Quality of U.S. Colleges | |
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| U.S. Education at a Crossroads | |
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| Years of School Completed | |
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| Achievement Levels (or the Mastery of Cognitive Skills) | |
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| International Comparisons | |
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| Achievement Gaps | |
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| The Political Responses | |
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| Increased Spending and Resources for K-12 Education | |
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| Increased Equity in Funding for K-12 Education | |
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| The Standards and Accountability Movement | |
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| Increased School Choice Options | |
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| Teacher Certification | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Court Interventions in School Finance | |
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| Federal Desegregation Litigation and Milliken II Remedies | |
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| "Equity" Cases | |
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| "Adequacy" Cases | |
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| Practical Issues with Educational Adequacy | |
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| Defining an "Adequate" Education | |
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| The Element of Causation | |
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| Problems Relating to Remedy | |
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| Problems Inherent in the Makeup and Processes of the Courts | |
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| The Effectiveness of Judicial Remedies | |
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| Kentucky | |
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| Wyoming | |
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| New Jersey | |
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| Massachusetts | |
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| Science and School Finance Decision Making | |
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| A Simple Decision Model | |
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| How Much Is Enough? | |
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| How Should the Money Be Spent? | |
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| Using Science More Effectively | |
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| A Performance-Based Funding System | |
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| Guiding Principles: Back to Basics | |
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| A Performance-Based Funding System | |
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| Big City Schools | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Making Performance-Based Funding a Reality | |
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| The Persistence of Illusory Spending Solutions | |
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| Support for the Status Quo and Resistance to Change | |
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| Some Current Countervailing Forces | |
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| Encouraging True Reform: Mutually Agreed Bargains | |
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| Changing the Focus of the Courts | |
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| Mobilizing for the Future | |
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| Notes | |
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| Legel Citations | |
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| Federal Court Cases (arranged in alphabetical order) | |
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| State Court Cases (arranged by state and, within states, chronologically) | |
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| Sources for Figures and Tables | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |