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School Finance

Format: 2023

General Audience Articles

Does the World Change for Teachers?. In Margaret E. Raymond (ed.), How to Improve our Schools in the Post-COVID Era, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 2021.
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Budgeting During and For Recovery. In Margaret E. Raymond (ed.), How to Improve our Schools in the Post-COVID Era, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, 2021.
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It Pays to Improve School Quality. (with Jens Ruhose and Ludger Woessmann). Education Next, 16(3) , Summer 2016, pp. 16-24.
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Many Schools Are Still Inadequate: Now what?. (with Alfred A. Lindseth and Michael A. Rebell) . Education Next, 9(4), Fall 2009, pp. 49-56.
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The Confidence Men: Selling Adequacy, Making Millions. Education Next, 7(3), Summer 2007, pp. 73-78.
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Science Violated: Spending Projections and the "Costing Out" of an Adequate Education. in Eric A. Hanushek (ed.) . Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm Our Children, Stanford, CA: Education Next Books, 2006, pp. 257-311.
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Introduction: Good Intentions Captured – School Funding Adequacy and the Courts. in Eric A. Hanushek (ed.). Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges’ Good Intentions and Harm Our Children, Stanford, CA: Education Next Books, 2006, pp. xiii-xxxii.
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Pseudo-Science and a Sound Basic Education: Voodoo Statistics in New York. Education Next, 5(4), Fall 2005.
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Adjusting for Differences in the Costs of Educational Inputs. in William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.) . Selected Papers in School Finance, 1997-1999, 1999, pp. 17-27.
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Improving School Performance While Controlling Costs. in William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.) . Developments in School Finance, 1995, 1996, pp. 111-122.
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Notes/Comments

U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes. (with Danielle V. Handel). Cato Research Briefs in Economic Policy, No. 343, July 26, 2023.
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Judicial Funding Mandates Related to Education Sharply Decline. (with Alfred A. Lindseth) . State Courts Project, Federalist Society, Fall 2009.
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Performance-Based Funding. Defining Ideas, 1, 2009, pp. 101-105.
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The Effectiveness of Court-Ordered Funding of Schools. (with Alfred A. Lindseth). Education Outlook, No. 6 (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute), May 2009.
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Getting down to facts: School finance and governance in California. (with Susanna Loeb and Anthony S. Bryk). Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice, Stanford University, September 2007.
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Is the 'Evidence-Based Approach' a Good Guide to School Finance Policy?. Paper commissioned by Washington Learns, March 2007.
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Will More Spending Fix Unequal Schools?. Detroit News, October 30, 1991.
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Working Papers

Contexts of Convenience: Generalizing from Published Evaluations of School Finance Policies. (with Danielle V. Handel). NBER Working Paper No. 31653, National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2023.
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Does Regulating Entry Requirements Lead to More Effective Principals?. (with Wes Austin, Bengie Chen, Dan Goldhaber, Kris Holden, Cory Koedel, Helen Ladd, Jin Luo, Eric Parsons, Gregory Phelan, Steven G. Rivkin, Tim Sass, Mavzuna Tureava). .
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U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes. (with Danielle V. Handel). NBER Working Paper No. 30769, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2022.

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