How Money Matters
The Effect of School District Spending on Academic Achievement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2559792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harold Wenglinsky (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 221 |
| Publication date | 1997-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0407 • E-ISSN: 1939-8573 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2673210 |
| OpenAlex | W2046474704 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 11 |
Because of the prestige of the Coleman Report, few sociologists of education assert that school spending is associated with students' achievement. Instead, most either emphasize the influence of school social environment or question the ability of schools to make any difference. The study presented here applied LISREL to a new database synthesized from the 1992 National Assessment of Educational Progress in mathematics for eighth graders and the Common Core of Data for the universe of U.S. school districts to test the hypothesis that school spending is associated with achievement. It found that per-pupil expenditures for instruction and the administration of school districts are associated with achievement because both result in reduced class size, which raises achievement
Academic achievement · Achievement test · Class size · LISREL · Mathematics education · Political science · Prestige · Social class · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Standardized test · Structural equation modeling · Test (biology) · Demography · Higher Education Research Studies · Parental Involvement in Education · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
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Positive Racial Identity of Black Brazilian and Colombian Adolescents Amidst Systems of Educational Oppression
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Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Schools
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The link between educational expenditures and student learning outcomes
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Net-Widening in Schools
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Stereotype Promise
Student Neighborhoods, Schools, and Test Score Growth
Dynamic measures of primary and secondary school characteristics
Schooling and achievement in American society
Structural Equation Modeling with Lisrel
Inequality
Equality of educational opportunity
The Impact of Differential Expenditures on School Performance
An Exchange
How Smaller Is Better
Meta-Analysis of Research on Class Size and Its Relationship to Attitudes and Instruction
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| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,37 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 34 |