"Highlights costs of inadequate education, attaching hard numbers to the relationship between educational attainment and critical indicators as income, health, crime, dependence on public assistance, and political participation. Explores policy interventions to boost the education system's...

School finance and urban education reform / Christopher Roellke and Jennifer King Rice -- Can whole-school reform improve the productivity of urban schools? : the evidence on three models / Robert Bifulco -- Whole school reform and school-based budgeting in New Jersey : three years of...