Funding of education and student finance

In The Politics of Collegiality Hardy uses six case studies to explore how power and collegiality interact within institutional contexts during periods of fiscal restraint.

This book traces the policymaking processes of the Review of Funding for Schooling (2011), which fundamentally changed school funding policy in Australia.

Your guide to loans, bursaries, grants, tuition fees and preparing your own budget.

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America.

The untold history of how America's student-loan program turned the pursuit of higher education into a pathway to poverty.

This 2004 book examines how ''human capital contracts'' transfer financial risk of higher education from students to investors.

Leading economists, including three Nobel prize winners, evaluate ten serious global challenges.

With demands for improved quality, increasing competition for state and federal funds, and the challenges of integrating technology into the curriculum, higher education faces greater economic uncertainties than ever before.

The volume of research into the economics of education has grown rapidly in recent years.

Es werden Wege aufgezeigt, wie die Leser mehr finanzielle Unabhängigkeit erreichen können.

This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America.

This book reveals that, far from being the result of a groundswell of support for parental choice in American education, the origins of school vouchers are seated in identity politics, religious schooling, and educational entrepreneurship.

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In this era of accountability and high-stakes testing, school leaders must find more sophisticated ways to help all students succeed.

How online learning could help control the exploding cost of higher educationTwo of the most visible and important trends in higher education today are its exploding costs and the rapid expansion of online learning.

Is everything in a university for sale if the price is right?

Now widely available, the popular, award-winning, self-published guide to help women get out of debt, rebuild their credit, and fulfill their financial dreams.

Beating the College Debt Trap presents students with a better way to do college.

Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning is the summary of a National Research Council workshop convened to examine the gap between external andclassroom assessment.

Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning is the summary of a National Research Council workshop convened to examine the gap between external andclassroom assessment.

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A higher education without falling deep in debt.

Most futures depend on it.

Based on years of observation at a large state university, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to the market.

Over the past thirty-five years, federal courts have dramatically retreated from actively promoting school desegregation.

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A heated debate is raging over our nation's public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools.

In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations.

A significant factor for many people deciding where to live is the quality of the local school district, with superior schools creating a price premium for housing.

Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy.

Much of what is written about colleges and universities ties rapidly rising tuition to dysfunctional behavior in the academy.

A heated debate is raging over our nation's public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools.

There is a profound linkage between the quality of a university and its financial resources.

There is a profound linkage between the quality of a university and its financial resources.

The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim.

The US higher education system is on the verge of a revolution, so some observers claim.

The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy: Skills, Experiences, Practices and Strategies presents the tools that are necessary for the acquisition and development of a scientific culture.

Why fears about a looming student loan crisis are unfounded-and how they obscure what's really wrong with student lendingCollege tuition and student debt levels have been rising at an alarming pace for at least two decades.

The Economics of Education: A Comprehensive Overview, Second Edition, offers a comprehensive and current overview of the field of that is broadly accessible economists, researchers and students.

The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy: Skills, Experiences, Practices and Strategies presents the tools that are necessary for the acquisition and development of a scientific culture.

"e;Adequacy lawsuits"e; have emerged as an alternative strategy in pursuit of improved public education in America.