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Equity and Accountability: The Impact of State Accountability Systems on School FinanceUsing an 11-year panel data set containing information on revenues, expenditures, and demographics for every school district in the United States, we examine the effects of state-adopted school accountability systems on the adequacy and equity of school …
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Spending, Size, and Grade Span in K-8 SchoolsReorganizing primary school grade spans is a tractable and relatively inexpensive school reform. However, assessing the effects of reorganization requires also examining other organizational changes that may accompany grade span reforms. Using data on New …
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L'Affaire du Coeur in the United States and France: The Prevalence and Treatment of Ischemic Heart Disease in Two Nations and their World CitiesWe examine, for residents in two nations (U.S. and France) and the hearts of two world cities (New York, and Paris), differences in rates of mortality and hospital discharge, by area of residence, for ischemic heart disease (IHD), acute myocardial …
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Reduce Avoidable Hospitalisations: A Policy to Increase Value from Health Care ExpendituresAn interdisciplinary examination of rates of avoidable hospitalizations in France and England to evaluate access to primary care and identify the extent to which these countries may be able to reduce hospital costs by investing in disease management and …
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Comparative Analysis of Health Systems in Wealthy NationsHow do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the …
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Reinventing the Central City as a Place to Live and WorkPublic policies for urban development have traditionally emphasized investment in physical infrastructure, the development of large-scale commercial facilities, the construction of new housing, and the renewal of existing neighborhoods. Most efforts to …
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Financial Management for Public, Health, and Not-for-Profit Organizations, 3rd EditionFinkler, S.A. …
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Hospital Quality for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Correlation Among Process Measures and Relationship with Short-Term MortalityContext The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) measure and report quality process measures for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), but little is known about how these …
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Cultivating Next Generation Leadership: Preceptors’ Rating of Competencies in Post-Graduate Administrative Residents and Fellows.Substantial national attention is being directed at enhancing the competency levels of early careerists in healthcare management. In this study, we examined preceptors' ratings of administrative resident/fellow competencies in multiple domains, and we …
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Do We Get What We Pay For? Cost-Effectiveness of Adding Contingency Management.Aims To assess the relative cost-effectiveness of lower versus higher cost prize-based contingency management (CM) treatments for cocaine abuse. Design Cost-effectiveness analyses based on resource utilization, unit costs and outcomes from a previous CM …
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Social Exclusion of Children in the United States: Identifying Potential IndicatorsPapers from a conference held May 3-4, 2001, Columbia University. …
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Testing Equivalence of Mediating Models of Income, Parenting, and School Readiness for White, Black, and Hispanic Children in a National SampleThis paper examines complex models of the associations between family income, material hardship, parenting, and school readiness among White, Black, and Hispanic 6-year-olds, using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K). It is …
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Income Is Not Enough: Incorporating Material Hardship Into Models of Income Associations With Parenting and Child DevelopmentAlthough research has clearly established that low family income has negative impacts on children's cognitive skills and social-emotional competence, less often is a family's experience of material hardship considered. Using the Early Childhood …
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The Effects of Size of Student Body on School Costs: New York City High SchoolsSchool reform leaders from Chicago (Illinois), Denver (Colorado), New York (New York), Seattle (Washington), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), and Los Angeles (California) created the Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform to work to improve urban …
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Insight from Hindsight: The New Education Finance of the Next DecadeInsight comes from hindsight. By reviewing enduring problems in education finance and policy, observing what we did right and seeing when we were surprised and why, we can identify research issues that we missed, avoid similar mistakes in the future, and …
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Measuring School Efficiency: Lessons from Economics, Implications for PracticeHigh school reform is currently at the top of the education policy making agenda after years of stagnant achievement and persistent racial and income test score gaps. Although a number of reforms offer some promise of improving U.S. high schools, small …
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Health and Disease in Global Cities: A Neglected Dimension of National Health PolicyA collection of writings by leading experts and newer researchers on the SARS outbreak and its relation to infectious disease management in progressively global and urban …
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Assessing Medicaid Managed Care in Eastern StateThis case examines the expanding role of managed care programs in improving health care for the poor while controlling runaway health care costs. The case asks what the commissioner of health in a large eastern state should do to effectively monitor …
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Managing Diversity in Civil Service: A Conceptual Framework for Public Organizations.In this paper I explore the managerial challenges posed by diversity in addressing traditional and new requirements for effective performance in public organizations. I survey the core dimensions, concepts and approaches to diversity in reference to …
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The Promise of Evidence-Based ManagementMore and more, healthcare providers are committing to evidenced-based clinical practice as a rational way to deliver care. Rather than make decisions anecdotally, clinicians find that the addition of research provides statistical evidence for their …
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How Brazilian prosecutors enforce labor and environmental laws: The organizational basis of creative problem-solvingBrazil's 8,000 prosecutors sit at the crux of the country's legal system, deciding who gets indicted and sued for common crimes and a wide array of civil violations. In many cases, particularly those concerning the most recalcitrant labor and …