| Marta Elliott
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School finance and opportunities to learn: Does money well spent enhance student achievement?
FINAL REPORT:
This study links U.S. Census data on school finance to NELS:88 data to study the process through which funding practices affect opportunities to learn in U.S. public high school math and science classrooms. It examines the effects of funding practices on student achievement in math and science, both directly and indirectly through their effects on student access to opportunities to learn. Finally, it tests multiple components of opportunities to learn in math and science to determine their relative impact on student learning. Opportunities to learn are operationalized with math and science teacher reports of the resources available to them, their training and experience, and the pedagogies they employ. The results have policy implications for school finance reform, and for the development of effective opportunity to leam standards.
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