Diana Sharp

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03/2007

Learning Science Meets School Finance: The How People Learn Framework as a Tool for Resource Decisions

In this paper, Diana Sharp and John Bransford show how the learning sciences can be applied to school finance.

These briefs provide a summary of the special education landscape in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and offer recommendations for further steps that might be taken to strengthen the cities’ support structures for parents of children with disabilities.

The report examines the Texas Education Agency’s System of Great Schools (SGS) initiative, which calls on districts to manage school performance in new ways, expands access to school choice options, and takes a dynamic approach to managing their supply of schools.