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Approaches to the Funding of Schools and Their Effects on Capacity

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International Handbook of Educational Policy

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Most debates about funding for education focus on the adequacy of the global amounts of money made available to schools, often without equally serious regard for how those amounts are distributed. That the balance of debate should fall on the side of adequacy is not surprising when one considers the fundamental reasons for making public investments in education in the first place. Even the phrase “making public investments” is significant. Making public investments in education is not in principle the same as making investments in public education. The form of investment can make a difference

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  1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Canada

    Daniel W. Lang

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  1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, ON, Canada

    Nina Bascia , Alister Cumming , Kenneth Leithwood  & David Livingstone , ,  & 

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Amanda Datnow

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Lang, D.W. (2005). Approaches to the Funding of Schools and Their Effects on Capacity. In: Bascia, N., Cumming, A., Datnow, A., Leithwood, K., Livingstone, D. (eds) International Handbook of Educational Policy. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3201-3_17

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