Federal data from NCES offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school teachers have higher turnover
rates than their public school counterparts, and it's not particularly close.
Using data from the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) Scholarship program, we find that low - income Florida students who attended private schools using an FTC scholarship enrolled in and graduated from Florida colleges at a higher
rate than their public school counterparts.
Federal data from the National Center on Education Statistics (NCES) offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school teachers have higher turnover
rates than their public school counterparts, and it's not particularly close.
Federal data from the National Center on Education Statistics show that private school teachers have a higher turnover
rate than their public school counterparts, and it's not close.
Not exact matches
Those from non-traditional education environments matriculate in colleges and attain a four - year degree at much higher
rates than their
counterparts from
public and even private
schools.
They found that, initially, charter -
school parents
rated their children's
schools more highly
than their
public -
school counterparts did.
It is also instructive to note that teachers working in private
schools quit teaching at a much higher
rate than their
counterparts in
public schools, and almost two - thirds of these leavers rank an increase in salary to be very or extremely important in any possible decision to return to teaching.
On measures widely used to judge all
public schools, such as state test scores and graduation
rates, virtual
schools — often run as charter
schools — tend to perform worse
than their brick - and - mortar
counterparts.
On the contrary, a study of midcareer lawyers, surveyed five years and 15 years after graduating from the same
school, showed that better - looking attorneys often chose a specialty that involved more contact with the
public, and they earned more money, billing at higher
rates than their
counterparts.