[lbo-talk] Public schools outperform private schools

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 04:04:53 PST 2013


It is often assumed that private schools do a better job educating children than public schools, but a new book, “The Public School Advantage<http://www.amazon.com/The-Public-School-Advantage-Outperform/dp/022608891X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383623918&sr=8-1&keywords=the+public+school+advantage>,” which is being published this week, shows this isn’t the case. Here’s a piece the authors, Christopher Lubienski, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Organization and Leadership at the College of Education at University of Illinois, and Sarah Theule Lubienski, associate professor of mathematics education in the College of Education at the University of Illinois. The Lubienskis looked at two huge datasets of student mathematics performance and found that public school students outperform private school ones, when adjusted for demographics.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/05/are-private-schools-better-than-public-schools-new-book-says-no/

-- Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."



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