This book concerns the rationale for efficient investment of public financial resources in public schools and the equitable deployment of those resources. It is a collection of the writings of scholars who have turned their attention to these issues and have published thoughtful articles in the Journal of Education Finance and its predecessor organization, The National Educational Finance Project. The Journal of Education Finance has been published for 33 years and over that long period has been the source of many outstanding articles of which the chapters in this book are representative. The 19 chapters were chosen because they combine to present a comprehensive view of perspectives on the questions regarding the economic efficiency of investment in education and the redress of difficulties in the fair deployment of public monies among the many local education agencies in the United States. Important to the book is the idea that the public school is in an essential and pivotal position for the social mobility of the people from one generation to the next. Efficient and adequate public funding of well-regulated institutions of public instruction is, along with progressive taxation, public health, and certain other social transfer mechanisms, the primary means that government has at its disposal to redress the market forces that create and perpetuate great disparities in the wealth and income among the people. The public school, in particular, as a social institution, carries a huge burden in interrupting the cycle of poverty that is perpetuated by the market forces of the economic system. The downward draft of the cycle of poverty that is woven into the fabric of social and economic conditions by the rush of private and corporate self-interests places on the public schools a daunting responsibility. Unfortunately, as certain statistics in this book indicate, disparities in wealth and income in the United States continue to increase, and the state and federal government s tepid fiscal commitments to public schools, along with their unenthusiastic support of other social transfers, compared to other developed countries, has not served to abate the separation of economic classes and the building up of an underclass in the United States. As this book indicates, the economic rationale is well enunciated that supports increasing investment in education and the adequate funding of public schools. The various chapters are presented in a progression from the broad justification for overall investment to the actual measures that should be undertaken by state governments to provide adequate and just deployment of public funds among schools. The chapters are arranged into two parts. Part I sets forth the arguments concerning the idea that education is a productive investment in the knowledge of the people and serves as a catalyst, indeed the condition precedent, for economic growth and viability of any nation. Part II deals more directly with the reasoning supporting the importance of adequate funding of public schools and the equitable distribution of funds among school districts in the 50 states.

Education and Economic Growth: Investment and Distribution of Financial Resources

Business & Money

Kern, Alexander

Industries

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The Education of Young Children: Research and Public Policy was inspired by papers presented at the Oxford Round Table in Oxford, England in 2008. For twenty years the Oxford Round Table has been a gathering place for discourse among international policy makers and scholars from a wide and varied range of academic disciplines. This book focuses on research and public policy as they relate to the contemporary areas of literacy, issues and trends, and international perspectives in early childhood education. Each of the thirteen chapters eloquently enables the reader to hear the voices of experts from Australia, Canada, China, Norway, England, and the United States of America as they clarify and refine the impact of research and public policy on the education of young children.

The Education of Young Children: Research and Public Policy

Education & Teaching

Judith Lynne McConnell-Farmer

Schools & Teaching

This book examines the issue of terrorism and global insecurity from a multidisciplinary perspective in an effort to answer one of the most challenging inquiries of our time: how to win the war on terror. To many western observers the war on terror is the logical consequence of an inevitable clash between the forces of political extremism, religious fanaticism and globalization. From this perspective, the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq may be only the beginning of a larger global conflagration pitting the conventional armies of wealthier, democratic states against more mobile, clandestine groups who operate across national borders. To these observers, to win the war, the terrorist movements must be destroyed and no enclave is off-limits. To others, the war on terror appears endless, uncertain, hostile, and unaccountably irrational, threatening to undermine the very fabric of the nation-state system and international law. From the latter standpoint, winning the war on terror through the use of military force is as unrealistic as attempting to prevail in a struggle against hate or racism by military means. Terrorism, of course, is much more complex than genocide or invading one s neighbor; but if the concept is placed in a proper multidimensional framework, certain rules, patterns and logic become apparent. Specific topics of the chapters in this book provide analyses of critical aspects of terrorism and global security from vantage points of scholars in various disciplines. Psychological factors that affect the individual s perspective and shape the mind of the terrorist are explored by trained psychologists. The threat of nuclear destruction as the end game for terrorism is considered in chapters by scientists who have thought deeply on the subject. Importantly, too, the foundations of terrorism that are formed from religious and cultural beliefs as immutable misconceptions are considered by sociologists with their dire implications. Other chapters address the role and adaptability of international law and institutions, such as the United Nations, in dealing with terrorism. In particular, legal scholars examine the implications of recent tribunal decisions and judicial actions that attempt to expand the scope of human rights law in the war on terror. Finally, selected papers discuss the factors that influence terrorism and global insecurity in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia and any possible redress of the conflicts in these regions. Important to this book is the idea that a multitude of factors must be considered to fully understand the causes of terrorism. It is not enough to say that the war on terror can be won by defeating the enemy on the battlefield. The war on terror is waged on many fronts and, therefore, understanding the role of history, geography, politics, poverty, religion, culture, oil, nuclear weapons, ethics and the rule of law is essential to addressing the abstractions of true threats. To this end, perspectives of scholars from around the world have been combined to present a comprehensive view of the problem in the modern world. It is our hope that this book will be useful as a guide for those in positions of governmental authority to rethink the current approach to the war on terror and consider the multidimensional aspects which give rise to the problem of terrorism in the twenty-first century. In that vein and in the overall context, this book reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary scholarship in the firm belief of the role of education and discourse in upholding a higher moral order in international relations.

Terrorism and Global Insecurity: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Politics & Social Sciences

Klint Alexander

Politics & Government

This book, edited and written by leading scholars in the field(s) of neuroscience, ethics, law and healthcare policy, provides a unifying perspective of how a philosophical understanding of pain and medicine gives rise to the ethics and policies of pain care. Toward these ends, the chapters shed light on how pain and the experience of the patient and clinician establish the moral obligations of pain medicine, and the conditions necessary to enact pain care on a global scale. In this context, the authors consider possible ethical systems and approaches that are important to, and viable for pain medicine, and provide perspectives into the ways that moral obligations and practical realties are wedded to (and should underscore) any and all practice guidelines, health policy, and laws. In these ways, this volume provides erudite discussions of how contemporary knowledge of pain could and should influence the moral values, and conduct, tenor and value(s) of medical practice, and how this knowledge might serve as a foundation upon which to construct policies toward a more meaningful, patient-centered pain medicine in the future.

Pain Medicine: Philosophy, Ethics and Policy

Science & Math

J Giordano and MV Boswell

History & Philosophy

These chapters explore the impact and related policy implications of climate change on our planet. The need for sustainable development is discussed from many different perspectives. It is presented at the upper level of undergraduate higher education, with ideas on how to use this book in the classroom and questions to help students to review the material. The editor is Dr. Ruth Reck, Professor of Land, Air and Water Resources at the University of California, Davis. In the Preface, Harvard Professor, Michael B. McElroy, says: "This volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the challenge posed by climate change for a sustainable global and specifically human societal future. The issues are clearly enunciated in the introductory paper by Professor Reck and are elaborated further in the wide-ranging series of papers that follow. Professor Reck makes a persuasive case for the need to introduce upper level undergraduates to this important topic. She offers an imaginative strategy as to how this volume could be used to educate and to stimulate debate following the creative approach implemented in the highly successful course she has taught over the past several years at the University of California, Davis."

Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Editor: Ruth Reck

This book focuses on children's literature ranging through English literature of the last century as seen in the writings of Lewis Carroll, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, P.L. Travers, Mollie Hunter and J.K. Rowling. It includes American literary traditions evident in native American and African American folklore and current analyses of those traditions. It explores the adventures, fantasy and dreams in some of the most influential children's literature of the past 150 years.

Adventures, Fantasy and Dreams in Children's Literature

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