What comes after lunch? : alternative measures of economic and social disadvantage and their implications for education research

"Faced with the problem of how to measure the magnitude of economic disadvantage in the populations served by schools or districts, researchers addressing school finance topics have invariably turned to the fraction of students eligible for free- or reduced-lunches (FRPL). But the facile depend...

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Other Authors Downes, Thomas A. (Editor), Killeen, Kieran M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2024.
SeriesResearch in education fiscal policy and practice.
Subjects
Children with social disabilities > Education > United States > Research.
Public schools > United States > Finance > Research.
Economic indicators > United States > Measurement.
Social indicators > United States > Measurement.
Education > Research.
Higher education, tertiary education.
Education.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601059
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-564-6
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 189 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Tom Downes and Kieran Killeen
  • Chapter 1. Measuring family income and student risk in public schools: A conceptual and empirical comparison of options / Ishtiaque Fazlul, Cory Koedel, and Eric Parsons
  • Chapter 2. Measuring economic disadvantage in schools in the post-cep era / Michelle Spiegel, Leah R. Clark, Thurston Domina, Vitaly Radsky, and Andrew Penner
  • Chapter 3. Understanding school-level funding and student poverty: An assessment using traditional and new measures of student need / Kristin Blagg and Emily Gutierrez
  • Chapter 4. Beyond binary indicators: Measuring socioeconomic status and capturing socioeconomic heterogeneity in high-poverty contexts / Jeremy Singer
  • Chapter 5. Weighted student funding with alternatives to free and reduced-price lunch eligibility data / Sarah Souders, Michah W. Rothbart, and Amy Ellen Schwartz
  • Chapter 6. Does the measure matter? The sensitivity of cost function estimates to the choice of measure of district poverty / Thomas Downes and Kieran M. Killeen. About the Contributors.

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