Distribution of Instructional Resources in Detroit

This study was supported by the Board of Education of the City of Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. I allocation and distribution of resources for education occurs at three levels: nation-wide, among the fifty states; state-wide, among the districts within a state; and districtwide, among the schools within a district. While some attention has been focussed on the first level (J.W. Guthrie, and S.B. Lawton, The Distribution of Federal School Aid Funds: Who Wins? Who Loses? Educational Administration Quarterly, 6 [Winter, 19701, 47-6 1), most research has dealt with the state-wide distribution of resources; e.g., J.W. Guthrie et al. Schools and Inequality (Boston: MIT Press, 1970) and J.A. Thomas, School Finance and Educational Opportunity in Michigan (Lansing: Michigan Department of Education, 1968), both of which were concerned with the allocation of funds in Michigan. distribution of resources within districts has received attention by educators only since Sexton's seminal work Education and Income (New York: Viking Press, 1961). See also, M. Levin, Financing Education for the Urban Disadvantaged in Equal Educational Opportunity, Part 7 (Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, 1970, pp. 3612-3621); M. Levin, Financing Education in Metropolitan Area (op. cit., pp. 3621-3626); A.E. Wise, Rich Schools, Poor Schools: Promise of Equal Opportunity, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968) and D.O. Porter, T.W. Porter, and D.C. Warner, The Mobilization of Federal Aid by Local Schools: A Political and Economic Analysis (Paper given at the American Educational Research Association Convention, New York, February 5, 1971). agreement on what characteristics a good teacher must have. Rightly or wrongly

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