[Amelia]

I doubt that this would have been reported on the front page of the NYT if the results of the "study" had shown that children sent to private schools did greatly better than those sent to the government schools. And I wouldn't exactly call the Department of Education unbiased. That's sort of like asking for the customer satisfaction survey results from an airline.

I actually saw analysis of it from a couple of liberal sites (I offer the disclaimer; they could be correct) that the administration had commissioned the report in hopes of coming up with evidence to support the vouchers plan, but that they released the results quietly on a Friday afternoon because the results were not what they'd hoped for.

Take that as you will.

I tend to agree with today's editorial stating that there are excellent and abysmal schools in both the public and private sectors, and that we need overall improvement to compete globally.

[RKBA Democrat]

"I tend to agree with today's editorial stating that there are excellent and abysmal schools in both the public and private sectors, and that we need overall improvement to compete globally."

The most promising area for overall improvement is in neither the public nor the private schools. It's in homeschooling.