Volume 16, No. 1
Summer 1990
CONTENTS
Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Large-Scale Assessments:
Lessons from Recent Research
JAMES S. CATTERALL, Associate Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education 1
Speculations on the Benefits of Large-Scale Teacher Assessment Programs:
How 78 Million Dollars Can Be Considered a Mere Pittance
LEWIS C. SOLMON, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at UCLA
and CHERYL L. FAGNANO, Executive Assistant to the Dean 21
School Aid and Property Tax Relief: Some Evidence of Conflicting Incentives
MICHAEL F. ADDONIZIO, Assistant Professor, Indiana University 37
An Equity Simulation of Pennsylvania’s School Finance System
PATRICIA RITCHEY SAMPLE, Director of Pupil Personnel,
Tunkhannock Area School District, Pennsylvania and
WILLIAM T. HARTMAN, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University 49
The Impact of Resources on Child Care Centers in Hawaii
JOHN A. THOMPSON, Professor, University of Hawaii and
MARY ANN MIGAN, early childhood consultant 70
Equity in Indiana School Finance: A Decade of Local Levy Property
Tax Restrictions
R. CRAIG WOOD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Educational Leadership,
University of Florida, DAVID S. HONEYMAN, Associate Professor, University of
Florida, and VERNE BRYERS, Instructor, Fox Valley Technical College,
Appleton, Wisconsin 83
Expenditures in Wisconsin School Districts: A Comparative Analysis of
Zero-Aid and Positive-Aid Districts
MAJA B. WEIDMANN, Legislative Analyst, Minnesota Senate Counsel
and Research, St. Paul, MN and LLOYD E. FROHREICH, Professor,
University of Wisconsin-Madison 93
LEGISLATION
The Quality Education Act of 1990: New Jersey Responds to Abbott v. Burke
ROBERT K. GOERTZ, Supervisor, education and Local Government for the
State of New Jersey Office of Management and Budget and
MARGARET E. GOERTZ, Executive Director, Education Policy Research
Division, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ 104
BOOK REVIEW
Public Values, Private Schools. Edited by Neal E. Devins
Reviewed by JOAN L. CURICO, and NANCY TOWNS 115
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