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Vincent Blackburn, Shae Brennan and John Ruggiero
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Vincent Blackburn: New South Wales Department of Education and Communities
Shae Brennan: University of Cincinnati
John Ruggiero: University of Dayton

Chapter Chapter 1 in Nonparametric Estimation of Educational Production and Costs using Data Envelopment Analysis, 2014, pp 1-10 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A useful starting point for viewing education as a production process was the 1966 report “Equality of Educational Opportunity” for the U.S. Department of Education. This report, more widely referred to as the Coleman Report (1966), provided evidence that socioeconomic factors (student socioeconomic status) are the most important factors in determining educational outcome. While school resources and spending per pupil can positively impact outcomes, the empirical evidence suggests that parental background and student characteristics have a bigger effect. This finding largely explains why equalization of spending per pupil has not removed the large differences in test scores that are still observed.

Keywords: Data Envelopment Analysis; Data Envelopment Analysis Model; Government School; School Resource; Socioeconomic Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-7469-3_1

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