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Jakee, Keith; Keller, Erin – Journal of Education Finance, 2017
"The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001" (NCLB) made schools accountable for student performance through standardized testing. Some claim high-stakes testing is an inexpensive vehicle through which to raise educational standards, however, these studies typically count only the administrative costs of test development, test delivery, and…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Standardized Tests, State Standards, Achievement Tests
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Knoeppel, Robert C. – Journal of Education Finance, 2007
Using school-level descriptive data, this study examined the distribution of teachers in the Commonwealth of Kentucky in an attempt to build on previous research concerning the equity of the finance system in the state. Rather than focusing on revenue from the perspective of horizontal equity, this study used human resource data to examine the…
Descriptors: Educational Equity (Finance), Equal Education, Teacher Distribution, Public Schools