Volume 29, No. 3
Winter 2004
CONTENTS
Special Issue: Rural Education Finance
RANDY J. DUNN, Rural Education Special Issues Editor, Chair of
Educational Administration and Higher Education, Southern Illinois
University in Carbondale
ARTICLES
Balancing District Needs and Student Needs: The Role of Economies of
Scale Adjustments and Pupil Need Weights in School Finance Formulas
BRUCE BAKER, Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and
Leadership, University of Kansas and WILLIAM DUNCOMBE, Professor
of Public Administration, Syracuse University 195
Rural Factors in State Funding Systems
CATHERINE SIELKE, Associate Professor in the Department of Educational
Administration and Policy, University of Georgia 223
Stalking Cost-effective Practices in Rural Schools
BRIAN O. BRENT, Associate Professor at the Warner Graduate School of
Education and Human Development, University of Rochester, JOHN W. SIPPLE,
Assistant Professor of Education, Cornell University, KIERAN M. KILLEEN,
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Vermont and
MICHAEL W. WISCHNOWSKI, Assistant Professor at the Warner Graduate
School of Education and Human Development, University of Rochester 237
A Critical Introduction to Useful Works about Rural Life and Education
CRAIG HOWLEY, Co-Director of the ACCLAIM Research Initiative,
Ohio University 257
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