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  • Principles of School Business Management

    by R. Wood Craig, David C. Thompson, Lawrence O. Picus, Don I. Tharpe ...
    A must-read for anyone involved in school business management, this comprehensive textbook addresses a broad range of topics-from the basics of accounting principles to strategic planning, legal liability, taxation, purchasing, budgeting, and management information systems. Chapters focus on such key issues as total quality management, site-based management, and the future of school business ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance

    Edited by Dominic J. Brewer, Lawrence O. Picus ...
    Economics can be a lens for understanding the behavior of schools, districts, states, and nations in meeting education needs of their populaces, as well as for understanding the individual decisions made by administrators, teachers, and students. Insights from economics help decision makers at the state level understand how to raise and distribute funds for public schools in an equitable manner ... Read more

    $345.59 USD

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  • Policy Analysis

    Concepts and Practice

    by David L. Weimer, Aidan R. Vining ...
    Often described as a public policy “bible,” Weimer and Vining remains the essential primer it ever was. Now in its sixth edition, Policy Analysis provides a strong conceptual foundation of the rationales for and the limitations to public policy. It offers practical advice about how to do policy analysis, but goes a bit deeper to demonstrate the application of advanced analytical techniques through ... Read more

    $150.00 USD

  • Poverty and Discrimination

    by Kevin Lang ...
    Many ideas about poverty and discrimination are nothing more than politically driven assertions unsupported by evidence. And even politically neutral studies that do try to assess evidence are often simply unreliable. In Poverty and Discrimination, economist Kevin Lang cuts through the vast literature on poverty and discrimination to determine what we actually know and how we know it.Using ... Read more

    $79.19 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance

    Edited by Mike Wright, Donald Siegel, Kevin Keasey, Igor Filatotchev ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The behavior of managers-such as the rewards they obtain for poor performance, the role of boards of directors in monitoring managers, and the regulatory framework covering the corporate governance mechanisms that are put in place to ensure managers' accountability to shareholder and other stakeholders-has been the subject of extensive media and policy scrutiny in light of the financial crisis of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Demographics and the Demand for Higher Education

    by Nathan D. Grawe ...
    The decisions we make in the next five years are critical in determining whether colleges thrive or flounder.2017 National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Award for Outstanding AACRAO SEM Research PresentationHigher education faces a looming demographic storm. Decades-long patterns in fertility, migration, and immigration persistently nudge the country toward the Hispanic Southwest. As a ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • The Dynamics of Opportunity in America

    Evidence and Perspectives

    Edited by Irwin Kirsch, Henry Braun ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly different ... Read more

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  • The Economic Psychology of Tax Behaviour

    by Erich Kirchler ...
    Tax evasion is a complex phenomenon which is influenced not just by economic motives but by psychological factors as well. Economic-psychological research focuses on individual and social representations of taxation as well as decision-making. In this 2007 book, Erich Kirchler assembles research on tax compliance, with a focus on tax evasion, and integrates the findings into a model based on the ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Unequal Prospects

    Is Working Longer the Answer?

    by Tay McNamara, John Williamson ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    In light of the recent financial crisis and changing economic landscape, McNamara and Williamson present and analyze the possibility of working longer. Including a range of potential policies (e.g., further increasing the age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits, allocating more government resources to retraining and job search assistance for older workers), this is one of the major ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Educational Inequality and School Finance

    Why Money Matters for America's Students

    by Bruce D. Baker ...
    In Educational Inequality and School Finance, Bruce D. Baker offers a comprehensive examination of how US public schools receive and spend money. Drawing on extensive longitudinal data and numerous studies of states and districts, he provides a vivid and dismaying portrait of the stagnation of state investment in public education and the continuing challenges of achieving equity and adequacy in ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Cases in Public Policy Analysis

    Third Edition

    by George M. Guess, Paul G. Farnham ...
    Combining the insights of an economist and a political scientist, this new third edition of Cases in Public Policy Analysis offers real world cases to provide students with the institutional and political dimensions of policy problems as well as easily understood principles and methods for analyzing public policies.Guess and Farnham clearly explain such basic tools as problem-identification, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • From Welfare to Childcare

    What Happens to Young Children When Mothers Exchange Welfare for Work?

    Edited by Natasha Cabrera, Robert Hutchens, H. Elizabeth Peters ...
    Although federal and state support for childcare has increased dramatically in response to welfare work requirements, low-income families are still facing difficulties balancing work and family obligations. There is wide variation across states in the strictness of welfare work requirements and in the generosity of childcare support. In addition, the level of co-payments required and the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD