Introduction; Iris BenDavid-Hadar -- Part I Education Finance -- School Finance Policy and Justice; Iris BenDavid-Hadar -- Why Should Tax Justice be Part of the Solution to Finance Free Good Quality Education? A Multi-Country Study: Pakistan, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda; Maria Ron-Balsera -- A Historical and Conceptual Overview of School Finance Equalization Models; Tyrone Bynoe -- Investing in Education and Equality in Mongolia; Otgontugs Banzragch and Munkhireedui Bayanjargal -- Economic Recession and School Finance: A Cross-National Study; Ji Liu -- Financing of Higher Education Institutions: Access to Funds and Issues of Equity; Jinusha Panigrahi -- Funding Mechanisms for Financing Vocational Training: An Analytical Framework; Adrian Ziderman -- Part II Educational Equality and Equity -- Equality and Equity in Education Finance: A Conceptual Analysis; Tal Gilead -- The Economic Costs of Educational Inequality in Developing Countries; Carina Omoeva, Charles Gale, and Wael Moussa -- Measuring (In) Equality in Education; Zehorit Dadon-Golan, Iris BenDavid-Hadar, and Joseph Klein -- Together or Apart: Equality of Educational Opportunity in the Light of the Secular-Ultra-Orthodox Cleavage in Israel; Meidan Koresh and Iris BenDavid-Hadar -- Choice and Efficiency in Education: New Perspective on the Tiebout Model; Mor Zahavi, Iris BenDavid-Hadar, and Joseph Klein -- Financial Education and Equality; Iris BenDavid-Hadar and Yaniv Hadad -- Future Directions and Challenges; Iris BenDavid-Hadar -- Index.

This volume revisits educational equality and equity issues, especially, in education finance-related topics consisting of 15 chapters and organized in two parts. The first part of the volume entitled “Education Finance”, focuses on equity aspects of resource allocation and its influence on education. The second part, entitled “Educational Equality and Equity”, focuses on the conceptualization, and the measurements of educational inequity, and inequality with special emphasis on the cost of inequality. The field of education finance has been significantly influencing policy-makers in many countries in recent years. This volume is focused on equity and equality in education finance in an international frame. This book would be of interest to (1) scholars at the fields of education finance, economics of education, and educational policy, (2) graduate students at the course of school finance or economics of education, and (3) local and global policy makers at the fields of education policy, and education finance. .