Education Finance, Equality, and Equity

This volume revisits educational equality and equity issues, especially, in education finance-related topics consisting of 15 chapters and organized in two parts. The first part of the volume entitled "Education Finance", focuses on equity aspects of resource allocation and its influence o...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: BenDavid-Hadar, Iris (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Series:Education, Equity, Economy, 5
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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Summary:This volume revisits educational equality and equity issues, especially, in education finance-related topics consisting of 15 chapters and organized in two parts. The first part of the volume entitled "Education Finance", focuses on equity aspects of resource allocation and its influence on education. The second part, entitled "Educational Equality and Equity", focuses on the conceptualization, and the measurements of educational inequity, and inequality with special emphasis on the cost of inequality. The field of education finance has been significantly influencing policy-makers in many countries in recent years. This volume is focused on equity and equality in education finance in an international frame. This book would be of interest to (1) scholars at the fields of education finance, economics of education, and educational policy, (2) graduate students at the course of school finance or economics of education, and (3) local and global policy makers at the fields of education policy, and education finance. .
Physical Description:XIII, 309 p. 38 illus. online resource.
ISBN:9783319903880
ISSN:2364-835X ;
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-90388-0