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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very important fact in the interview:

"Most of the schools in your study are religious schools. What about private schools that serve purely academic purposes? Are they also underperforming?

STL: Actually, that was not a category in any of the data that we worked with. There’s this category of “other private” that doesn’t fit into Lutheran, Catholic, conservative Christian, et cetera, but that’s really a catch all-category. A very small sample. So we weren’t able to study that."
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The lions share of non public schools in the US are religious. All private schools were included, and private like Sidwell was a small fraction. The study looked at outcome by SES. Thus the highest SES was where they would have had the largest chunk of Sidwell like schools. They did say that good privates have better outcome, but that might be the cherry picking phenom. Sidwell would never take all kids at Whitman, but the ones they would take probably would be no better off at Sidwell.
Of note, run, do not walk away from small inexpensive religious schools, including parochial. [/quote]

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