A contrast in approaches
between academic finance and FF is contained in the introduction to Brealey and Myers Principles of Corporate Finance (McGraw Hill 1991) a leading finance text, where the authors state «there are no ironclad prerequisites for reading this book except Algebra and the English language.
Not exact matches
In the United States, the disjuncture, or gap,
between K - 12 and higher education is a major policy issue, one rooted in history and encompassing governance,
academic standards,
finance, communications, and organizational culture.
[xi] Di Xu and Shanna Jaggars, «Performance Gaps
Between Online and Face - to - Face Courses: Differences Across Types of Students and
Academic Subject Areas,» Journal of Higher Education 85 (3), 633 - 659, 2014; Cassandra Hart, Elizabeth Friedmann, and Michael Hill, «Online Course - Taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges,» Education
Finance and Policy, forthcoming.
While not every dollar a school spends directly improves
academic outcomes, a new report from Rutgers school -
finance expert Bruce Baker finds certain kinds of money very much do matter: extra funding for higher teacher salaries and more equitable distribution of resources
between rich and poor districts, for example, are correlated with higher student achievement, especially for the neediest kids.