William J. Fowler, Jr., (Ed.); Dean Michael Mead; Salwa Ammar, William Duncombe, Bernard Jump, and Ronald Wright; Eric J. Brunner and Jennifer Imazeki; Martin Hampel; Lawrence J. Miller, Marguerite Roza, and Claudine Swartz; Leanna Stiefel, Hella Bel Hadj Amor, and Amy Ellen Schwartz.
This report contains papers presented at the 2004 annual NCES Summer Data Conference. Discussions and presentations dealt with such topics as measuring school efficiency, analyzing the return on education investment, calculating education costs per student, and assessing the financial condition of school districts.