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Showing 1 to 20 of 95 for “"Education, Finance"”.
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Essays in Education Finance
This thesis consists of three chapters on education finance. I examine the funding systems that support public education provision in the United States, consider the incentives and constraints facing government actors within those systems, and identify policy interventions with the potential to …
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Essays in Household Finance and Education Finance
… consists of three essays in household finance and education finance. The first essay studies how the portfolio allocation of college savings affects children's college attendance and student debt using novel data on 529 college savings accounts linked with student-level longitudinal …
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Education Finance Reform, School Choice, and Residential Sorting
… been the touchstones in the area of local public finance. A growing body of research has explored the capitalization of the public service quality into housing prices, built on the Tiebout model. The existence of capitalization through residential mobility suggests that the education reforms can …
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Essays on special education finance and intergovernmental relations
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1997.
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Education Finance as a Social Determinant of Health in the United States
… this thesis is to investigate the role of K-12 education finance in the determination of health outcomes in the United States. To accomplish this, first, the differing theoretical perspectives surrounding health outcomes are explored. Second, theoretical literature surrounding public finance of …
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Cost analysis of three southwest Virginia special education programs
… is one of the most critical issues in public education today. Jordan & Lyons (1992) have predicted that the great debate of the 1990s will be over what proportion of available funds should be spent on programs for special-needs students. Special education has held a prominent place in fiscal …
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Education Policy Factors Contributing to Special Education Identification
<p>Vital to the discussion around special education is the topic of identification and de-identification as having a disability that impacts one’s education. Variation in special education enrollment across geographic locations, racial groups, and schooling sectors causes researchers to question …
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Scripting the Docufiction: Combining the Narrative and Documentary Modes in a Social Issue Film
… examining the issue of corruption in the higher education finance and student loan systems. A final report returns to the thesis question and offers an assessment of the script's strengths and weaknesses.</p>
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Fiscal Equity for At-Risk Students: A Quanitative Analysis of the At-Risk Index Component of the New Mexico Public School Funding Formula
… Scholars Program Award sponsored by the American Education Finance Association and the National Center for Education Statistics. The research model was presented at the 2002 AEFA National conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In brief, the results of the analyses showed that very modest fiscal …
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Public school finance programs in the southern region of the United States: 1986-87
… the state aid programs in the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) membership: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. The financing of educational programs in the …
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The impact of public spending on education in Nigeria
… spending on enrolments in primary and secondary education in Nigeria using a multiple regression model. The model was constructed to identify the relationship between government spending, primary and secondary enrolments rate while also considering the interaction with control variables; per …
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Can federal intervention impact college affordability? An assessment of federal maintenance of effort legislation at American public regional universities
The finance of public higher education in America is, of course, a joint responsibility that falls between the state, federal government and individual students (Thelin, 2013). Sadly, at a time when the nation appears poised to commit itself to significantly expand the percentage of its adult …
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The Effect of Allocated Assessment Time and Allocated Instructional Time on Student Achievement in Small, Medium, and Large School Districts in Florida
… (Spanjers, Burns, & Wagner, 2008). Current educational reform has placed accountability and assessment at the forefront of public education (Hirsh, 2007; Jennings, 2012; Kallemeyn, 2009; NCLB, 2001; Supovitz, 2009). Research of time on task has demonstrated that there may be a positive …
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Tuition Reductions: A Quantitative Analysis of the Prevalence, Circumstances and Outcomes of an Emerging Pricing Strategy in Higher Education
… in the private not-for-profit sector of higher education, utilizing a quantitative descriptive and correlational approach with secondary data analysis. It resulted in a listing of 45 institutions with verified tuition reductions from 2007 to 2017, more than previously thought. It found that the …
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A study of educational program costs for handicapped students - Frederick County (MD) Public Schools
With the passage of P.L.94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, a national statement was made regarding the rights of handicapped students to a free, appropriate education. Since passage of the law, the cost of implementing P.L.94-142 has been a topic of concern for …
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The relationship of socioeconomic status and school district funding to student achievement: A study of Illinois elementary school districts
… the inequality latent within its public education system. Notably, where the U.S. achievement gap between rich and poor continues to persist (Kena et al., 2016), there has been continued focus on narrowing the gap, and as part of that discussion, school finance often surfaces as a …
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Equity in Funding for Iowa's Public Schools
… study was to describe, analyze, and compare the education finance laws of three states, with particular attention to infrastructure and facility funding. Ohio and Texas entered the courts due to questions of equity in school facility funding and were selected for this study. lowa faced litigation …
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Improving Efficiency and Fairness in Machine Learning: a Discrete Optimization Approach
… deployed in various applications including Education, Finance, Healthcare, Transportation, etc. However, in most practical situations one-size-fits-all solutions suffer from poor predictive performance and/or bias against certain subgroups. This necessitates developing newer approaches to …
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Immigrant inflows and public goods provision
… Hispanic immigrant inflows affect K-12 public education finance in the US. I first document the long-run trend of mean household income and average number of children per household for Hispanic immigrant households relative to native households. An accounting calculation suggests that the tax …
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