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SCHOOL-LEVEL RESOURCE ALLOCATION
PRACTICES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO
INCREASE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
by
Sonaleena Patnaik Hargrove
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Sonaleena Patnaik Hargrove
Object Description
| Title | School-level resource allocation practices in elementary schools to increase student achievement |
| Author | Hargrove, Sonaleena Patnaik |
| Author email | sonaleena@yahoo.com; patnaik@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-12-14 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-01-26 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Gilbert Nelson, John Brewer, Dominic |
| Abstract | Schools aim to achieve high student performance outcomes that were never expected by society, government leaders, and many education professionals in the United States. They must educate students to achieve grade-level standards to proficient or advanced levels. Schools must achieve this goal with limited financial resources. California’s public schools have been under-funded for decades. They now aim to achieve high standards of student performance with additional reductions made to their school budgets.; The focus of this study is on the resource use and allocation of schools that have increased student performance during times of on-going fiscal constraint. This dissertation focuses on the resource use and allocation practices of schools that have significant numbers of English learning and economically disadvantaged students. It has been a struggle for many schools with significant percentages of English learner and economically disadvantaged students to raise levels of student achievement on standardized tests. The study examines how schools have managed to increase these students’ achievement by providing quality instructional programs while receiving fewer resources to fulfill their goals.; The study consisted of qualitative analyses of five elementary schools in the Southern California region as compared to the Picus-Odden Evidence-based Model. The major findings revealed that schools that have provided quality instructional programs to improve student achievement prioritized spending on professional development on evidence-based instructional strategies and immediate student interventions for struggling students. Findings also showed that the case study schools have reduced resource use and allocation for strategies that have improved student achievement in previous years due to on-going budget reductions. |
| Keyword | school funding; budget cuts; increasing student achievement; instructional program improvement; doubling student performance; educational adequacy funding models; adequacy models; school resource use; school resource allocation; school revenue |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3628 |
| Rights | Hargrove, Sonaleena Patnaik |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Hargrove-4310 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Hargrove-4310.pdf |
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| Full text | SCHOOL-LEVEL RESOURCE ALLOCATION PRACTICES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO INCREASE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT by Sonaleena Patnaik Hargrove A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2011 Copyright 2011 Sonaleena Patnaik Hargrove |
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