A Better Return on Investment: Reallocating Resources to Improve Student Achievement
This multimedia School Development Outreach Project package on school resource reallocation provides perspectives on an emerging education policy issue from national, state, and local leaders. The package contains two audiotapes and this accompanying booklet. The following introduction is intended to guide your use of these materials. The Issue Standards-based educational reform has prompted the education system as a whole to examine whether the dollars put into the system reflect an investment in meeting the overarching goals of school reform. Driven by a common goal of improving the achievement of all students in order to increase the productivity of society in general, the education industry is taking a hard look at where its dollars are going.
This booklet and the tapes in this package address this issue from multiple viewpoints and levels, in both rural and urban settings. The information is not intended as a guide for change, but rather as a presentation of how systems can assess their current situation and make changes, if needed.
