Education Finance, Equality, and Equity

Description

This volume revisits educational equality and equity issues, especially, in education finance-related topics consisting of 15 chapters and organized in two parts. The first part of the volume entitled “Education Finance”, focuses on equity aspects of resource allocation and its influence on education. The second part, entitled “Educational Equality and Equity”, focuses on the conceptualization, and the measurements of educational inequity, and inequality with special emphasis on the cost of inequality. The field of education finance has been significantly influencing policy-makers in many countries in recent years. This volume is focused on equity and equality in education finance in an international frame. This book would be of interest to (1) scholars at the fields of education finance, economics of education, and educational policy, (2) graduate students at the course of school finance or economics of education, and (3) local and global policy makers at the fields of education policy, and education finance. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Education Finance, Equality and Equity – Introduction (Iris BenDavid-Hadar)....Pages 1-15 Front Matter ....Pages 17-17 School Finance Policy and Justice (Iris BenDavid-Hadar)....Pages 19-37 Why Should Tax Justice Be Part of the Solution to Finance Free Good Quality Education? A Multi-country Study: Pakistan, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda (Maria Ron-Balsera)....Pages 39-49 A Historical and Conceptual Overview of School Finance Equalization Models (Tyrone Bynoe)....Pages 51-67 Investing in Education and Equality in Mongolia (Otgontugs Banzragch, Munkhireedui Bayanjargal)....Pages 69-92 Economic Recession and School Finance: A Cross-National Study (Ji Liu)....Pages 93-111 Financing of Higher Education Institutions: Access to Funds and Issues of Equity (Jinusha Panigrahi)....Pages 113-134 Funding Mechanisms for Financing Vocational Training: An Analytical Framework (Adrian Ziderman)....Pages 135-164 Front Matter ....Pages 165-165 Equality and Equity in Education Finance: A Conceptual Analysis (Tal Gilead)....Pages 167-179 The Economic Costs of Educational Inequality in Developing Countries (Carina Omoeva, Wael Moussa, Charles Gale)....Pages 181-217 Measuring (In) Equality in Education (Zehorit Dadon-Golan, Iris BenDavid-Hadar, Joseph Klein)....Pages 219-242 Together or Apart: Equality of Educational Opportunity in the Light of the Secular-Ultra-Orthodox Cleavage in Israel (Meidan Koresh, Iris BenDavid-Hadar)....Pages 243-260 Choice and Efficiency in Education: New Perspective on the Tiebout Model (Mor Zahavi, Iris BenDavid-Hadar, Joseph Klein)....Pages 261-279 Financial Education and Equality (Iris BenDavid-Hadar, Yaniv Hadad)....Pages 281-295 Conclusions and Directions for Future Research (Iris BenDavid-Hadar)....Pages 297-303 Back Matter ....Pages 305-309