Measuring equity-efficiency tradeoffs in elementary education settings
Measuring equity-efficiency tradeoffs in elementary education settings
- June 23, 2026
- Research by Paul Hanselman, sociology, featured by The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
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School leaders regularly make decisions on how to deploy their finite resources—staff, money, time—in ways they believe will best serve their students. … Researchers Paul Yoo of Stanford and Paul Hanselman of the University of California, Irvine, use data on elementary school students from one unnamed western state—specifically, 375,000 unique students …. According to the researchers, per-pupil spending was within 10 percent of the national average, and funding policy was less progressive than the median state in providing compensatory support for high-poverty districts.
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