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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, not only the gut but the science is on your side. The Economist this week, specifically about DC, confirming that private adds no value, not when it comes to academics anyway. The article uses it to inform the voucher question but the analysis underpinning it basically asks the question whether "one and the same child" (controlling for all sorts of variables) does differently in private vs. public school. The result is that "one and the same child" learns more and faster in public school. So you'd want to choose private to slow your child's academic progress. I'm guessing there could be good reasons to do that but the rest is conspicuous consumption, i.e. should be considered only if you don't what to do with your money.
http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21721640-should-you-spend-your-voucher-one-private-schools-are-doing-worse-washington-dc

Does someone know the link to the original study at the basis of that article?[/quote]

DO you mean this? " The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the Department of Education, analysed the results of children in Washington, DC’s scheme between 2012 and 2014. It found that, on average, pupils who attended private school had lower maths scores at the end of their first year than those who did not."

I think that's a well known fact that Publics push math more. It's the English and writing areas that are weak.[/quote]

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