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Education

Finance

and Policy

Volume 7      Issue 2      Spring 2012

American Institutes for Research financially supports the journal.

 
 

The Value of Experiments in Education
Grover J. Whitehurst

Random Assignment within Schools: Lessons Learned from the Teach for America Experiment
Steven Glazerman

Improving the Productivity of Education Experiments: Lessons from a Randomized Study of Need-Based Financial Aid
Douglas N. Harris, Sara Goldrick-Rab

POINT/CounterPOINT: The View from the Trenches of Education Policy Research
Dale Ballou, Matthew G. Springer, Daniel F. McCaffrey, J.R. Lockwood, Brian M. Stecher, Laura Hamilton, Matthew Pepper

The Measures of Effective Teaching Project: An Experiment to Build Evidence and Trust
Steven M. Cantrell

Limitations of Experiments in Education Research
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

ABOUT AEFP


Deborah Cunningham
AEFP President
As a dynamic organization, AEFP (formerly AEFA) needs to tackle the important education finance issues of the day. They are not solely about funding mechanisms and alternative approaches to taxation. Teachers' decisions about where to teach and how to teach strongly affect the cost of education. Moreover, both federal and state policies now link governance and instructional practices directly to finance. Key education finance policymakers also are key policymakers for personnel policies, governance policies, and curricular and instructional policies. Read more »

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As part of their 50th anniversary celebration, MIT Press has selected 50 influential articles published by them since 1969. "Teacher layoffs: An empirical illustration of seniority v. measures of effectiveness" by Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb, and James Wyckoff and "The Impacts of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence from North Carolina" by Robert Bifulco and Helen F. Ladd are those of 50 influential articles.
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