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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][i]Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, [u]they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better.[/u] Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement.[/i][/quote]

I read that one, but didn't it say at they did not include independent schools?  So, it's not really applicable to the crazy expensive supposedly awesome privates we are considering.  (Though i would love to believe the same conclusions applies, since we probably can't afford it.)[/quote]

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