We do believe that the material outperformance of the dual -
class basket does make a very strong case for holding these types of companies in a portfolio and in the least should give pause to investors that want to paint with a broad brush and ignore all companies with this
share structure.
In MariAnne's
class, for example, students read and discussed Molly's Pilgrim (Cohen, 1983) in their book clubs; From Miss Ida's porch (Belton, 1993) during
shared reading; and Grandmother's latkes (Drucker, 1992), Masai and I (Kroll, 1992), Pueblo Storyteller, (Hoyt - Goldsmith, 1991), and A birthday
basket for Tia (Mora, 1992) during guided reading.