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50 Years of ERIC
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The Cost of Instructional Improvement: Resource Allocation in Schools Using Comprehensive Strategies to Change Classroom Practice
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Odden, Allan; Goertz, Margaret; Goetz, Michael; Archibald, Sarah; Gross, Betheny; Weiss, Michael; Mangan, Michelle Turner – Journal of Education Finance, 2008
This article presents the findings from the application of a school-level expenditure framework (see Odden et al., 2003) to 11 elementary schools in 4 states. This detailed expenditure model assigns resources according to the various educational strategies deployed in the school. Nine of the 11 schools studied have implemented one of the following…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Instructional Improvement, Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education)
A Cost Framework for Professional Development.
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Odden, Allan; Archibald, Sarah; Fermanich, Mark; Gallagher, H. Alix – Journal of Education Finance, 2002
Defines professional development and its key components; reviews previous research on professional development costs; examines problems with current fiscal accounting codes; proposes a framework for capturing professional development costs composed of six elements: teacher time; training and coaching; administration; materials, equipment, and…
Descriptors: Accounting, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Development
Can Wisconsin Schools Afford Comprehensive School Reform?
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Odden, Allan; Archibald, Sarah; Tychsen, Anita – Journal of Education Finance, 2000
Examines whether the Modern Red Schoolhouse, an expensive reform design, could be funded in high-, medium-, and low- spending school districts across Wisconsin. Most Wisconsin schools can afford MRS reform elements; less expensive strategies are also available. Findings may not apply to states with lower per-pupil fiscal investments. (Contains 26…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Introduction to the Special Issue--Improving Educational Policy and Results with School-Level Data.
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Busch, Carolyn; Odden, Allan – Journal of Education Finance, 1997
The current context of policy issues and limits of current state education data systems underscore the need to create new, detailed, and comprehensive school-level data systems. Such data could be used to illuminate policy issues relating to governance, resource utilization, accountability, equity, and adequacy. In this special issue, authors…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Missouri's New School Finance Structure
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Odden, Allan – Journal of Education Finance, 1978
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid, Finance Reform, Program Descriptions
Alternative Measures of School District Wealth
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Odden, Allan – Journal of Education Finance, 1977
Investigates alternative measures of school district wealth, focusing on the issue of intergovernmental aid (particularly equalization aid), arguments for and against different wealth measures, jurisdictional implications of the use of alternative wealth measures in four states, and the effect of alternative wealth measures on state equalization…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equalization Aid
A School Finance Research Agenda for an Era of Education Reform.
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Odden, Allan – Journal of Education Finance, 1986
Discusses new research directions for school finance that should accompany a national policy shift toward improving education quality. Traces the evolution of school finance, outlines school finance topics related to recently enacted state education reforms, and projects future education policy isues and related financial research problems.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education