What's the Good of Education?
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Academic achievement
Accountability
Adult education
Alternative investment
Alternative school
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Compulsory education
Curriculum
Curriculum vitae
Diploma
Economics
Education
Education Act
Education Maintenance Allowance
Education policy
Educational attainment
Educational entrance examination
Educational inequality
Educational institution
Educational leadership
Educational stage
Effective schools
Effectiveness
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Funding
Further education
General Certificate of Secondary Education
General Educational Development
Higher education
Higher Education Statistics Agency
Human capital
Income
International Standard Classification of Education
Learning and Skills Council
Learning environment
Literacy
Marginal cost
Marginal return
Meaningful learning
National curriculum
Of Education
Opportunity cost
Postgraduate Certificate in Education
Present value
Primary education
Primary school
Profession
Propensity score matching
Qualified Teacher Status
School
School choice
Secondary education
Secondary modern school
Secondary school
Selective school
State school
Student benefits
Student loan
Subsidy
Supply (economics)
Teacher education
Teacher retention
Test score
Tuition payments
Unemployment
Values education
Vocational education
Welfare
Workforce development
Product details
- ISBN 9780691117348
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 08 May 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Volumes have been written about the value of more and better education. But is there sufficient evidence to support the commonly held belief that we, as individuals and as a community, should be investing more in education? This book explores that question in unprecedented detail, drawing on empirical evidence from an impressive array of sources. While much of the focus is on the educational system in the United Kingdom, the book offers lessons of international applicability. A state-of-the-art compendium on education policy and its impact on educational attainment, the book examines numerous large-scale data sources on individual pupils and schools. The questions the book considers are far-ranging: How much do teachers matter for children's educational attainment? What payoff do people get from acquiring more education when they enter the labor market? How well do education systems function to provide employers with the skills they want? The book concludes by issuing some strong policy recommendations and offering an evaluation of what does and does not work in improving educational attainment.
The recommendations address such issues as school effectiveness, education financing, individual investment in education, government education initiatives, higher education, labor market rewards, and lifelong learning.
Stephen Machin is Professor of Economics at the University College of London, Research Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and Director of the Centre for the Economics of Education. Anna Vignoles is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education and Research Associate of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.
