Volume 35, No. 2
Fall 2009
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Examining Economies of Scale in School Consolidation:Assessment of Indiana School Districts
TIMOTHY ZIMMER and LARRY DeBOER are Professors in the Department
of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University and MARILYN HIRTH is a
Professor in the Department of Education at Purdue University. 103
Property Ownership and Educational Discrimination in the South
DENNIS HALCOUSSIS is a Professor in the Department of Economics at
California State University - Northridge and KENNETH NG and NANCY VIRTS
are Associate Professors in the Department of Economics at California State
University - Northridge. 128
Building Budgets and Trust through Superintendent Leadership
JAMES J. BIRD and CHUANG WANG are Assistant Professors in the Department
of Educational Leadership, College of Education, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte and LOUISE M. MURRAY is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Educational Leadership, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 140
Variation in Teacher Salaries in Georgia: Does the Property Tax Base Matter?
JOHN V. WINTERS is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Business
at Auburn University at Montgomery.
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Teacher Unions and Teacher Compensation: New Evidence for the Impact of Bargaining
JOSHUA M. COWEN is an Assistant Professor in the Martin School of Public
Policy and Administration, University of Kentucky.
BOOK REVIEW
Review of Higher Learning, Greater Good: The Private and Social Benefits of Higher
Education, 2009, by Walter W. McMahon
Reviewed by MARY McKEOWN-MOAK, Senior Partner with MGT of
American, Inc., Austin, Texas. 194
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