A New Look at Public and Private Schools: Student Background And Mathematics Achievement.

SOCIAL conditions of students; PRIVATE schools; PUBLIC schools; EDUCATIONAL quality; ACADEMIC achievement; RESEARCH on students

Examines the academic performance of public and private school students in the U.S. Critique of claims that students at private schools perform better in mathematics that students in public schools; Design and scope of a study on the performance of public and private school students; Report that the mean score for private school students was significantly higher than that of public school students; Impact of socioeconomic status on student performance; Application of the study's findings to the improvement of educational quality in public schools.