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Charter schools offer something that public school systems,
parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative
ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using
technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both
sides of support for or against charter schools, everyone was
surprised by how difficult it was to assess charter school
performance. The first part of this book focuses on how to improve
estimates of charter schools' performance, especially their
benefits to students who attend them; the second part suggests how
policymakers can learn more about charter schools and make better
use of evidence. The editors and authors suggest ways states and
localities can improve the quality of data on which charter school
studies are based and trace some of the ways charter school
research influences policy.
Charter schools offer something that public school systems,
parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative
ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using
technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both
sides of support for or against charter schools, everyone was
surprised by how difficult it was to assess charter school
performance. The first part of this book focuses on how to improve
estimates of charter schools' performance, especially their
benefits to students who attend them; the second part suggests how
policymakers can learn more about charter schools and make better
use of evidence. The editors and authors suggest ways states and
localities can improve the quality of data on which charter school
studies are based and trace some of the ways charter school
research influences policy.
The past decade has seen increased attention to cost-effectiveness
and benefit-cost analysis in education as administrators are being
asked to accomplish more with the same or even fewer resources,
philanthropists are keen to calculate their "return on investment"
in social programs, and the general public is increasingly
scrutinizing how resources are allocated to schools and colleges.
This text (titled Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in its previous
editions) is the only full-length book to provide readers with the
step-by-step methods they need to plan and implement a benefit-cost
analysis in education. The authors examine a range of issues,
including how to identify, measure, and distribute costs; how to
measure effectiveness, utility, and benefits; and how to
incorporate cost evaluations into the decision-making process. The
updates to the Third Edition reflect the considerable
methodological development in the evaluation literature, and the
greater empiricism practiced by education researchers, to help
readers learn to apply more advanced methods to their own analyses.
SAGE congratulates author Henry M. Levin, winner of the 2017 AERA
Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award.
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