Its children spend 60 % more time in
class than their public school peers, and teachers» only hope for job security is improving student performance year after year.
Not exact matches
The result is that African - American students who switched from
public to private
schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher
than their
public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller
classes.
Special - progress
classes were even more racially and academically segregated from other students
than their contemporary version, «gifted and talented» programs that retain middle -
class parents in the
public -
school system by separating their children from most low - income and minority - group
peers.