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Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An Update
Eric A. Hanushek
University of Rochester
The relationship between school resources and student achievement has been controversial, in large part because it calls into question a variety of traditional policy approaches. This article reviews the available educational production literature, updating previous summaries. The close to 400 studies of student achievement demonstrate that there is not a strong or consistent relationship between student performance and school resources, at least after variations in family inputs are taken into account. These results are also reconciled with meta-analytic approaches and with other investigations on how school resources affect labor market outcomes. Simple resource policies hold little hope for improving student outcomes.
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 19, No. 2,
141-164 (1997)
DOI: 10.3102/01623737019002141

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