Shifting the bell curve: The benefits and costs of raising student achievement

Evaluation and Program Planning

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 74-82

  Yeh, Stuart S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Economics of education; Educational finance; Educational productivity; Evaluation; Mathematics; Reading

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MATHEMATICS; RETURNS TO EDUCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; STUDENT;

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MATHEMATICS; METHODOLOGY; READING; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MATHEMATICS; READING; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149178728     PISSN: 01497189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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