[Amelia]

The Times report says “Children in public schools generally performed as well or better in reading and mathematics than comparable children in private schools.” The actual study says, “In..both reading and mathematics, students in private schools achieved at higher levels than students in public schools.”

When they compared similar children, there was little difference between those in public schools and those in private schools.

Overall, those in private schools tend to do better because many private school students tend to be in higher socioeconomic groups, and most of the poor students tend to be in public schools.

[george76]

Your point is well taken.

Parents who care about their kids and their education often do the best. The best parents go to the PTA meetings, to the Parent-Teacher conferences, check on the kids homework, go to after school sports and cultural events...

Many rich parents send the kids off to private boarding schools where the instruction maybe excellent, but the parents only see the kids for major holidays...then off to camp for the summer.

While money is important, caring and motivated parents is the most important...IMHO.

My main reason for this thread was to try to point out that Pinch and the NYTimes are double speaking on this , as most topics.

[Old Professer]

Poor is the new code word for stupid.