All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes
than their private school counterparts.10
Public school students have more classroom access to the information highway
than their private school counterparts, a federal report released last week says.
Not exact matches
As a group, public universities in the top 40 performed better
than their
private counterparts, growing total assets by 44.5 percent compared with 24.7 percent for
private schools between the 2008 and 2014 fiscal years.
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.
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.
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.
Many
private schools do lay claim to a broader range of educational goals
than do their public - sector
counterparts.
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.
In 2006, the National Center for Education Statistics found that public
school students do as well as or better
than their
private school and charter
school counterparts.
Private school principals report more influence over curriculum
than their public
school counterparts report.
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.
Back in 1993, the typical hire at a
private elementary
school had SAT scores that were 4 points higher
than her or his public
school counterpart.
A recent Education Department analysis of that program found that after a year in
private school, voucher recipients performed worse on standardized tests
than their
counterparts who remained in public
school.
Yet despite years of reform and rhetoric, poor children in big cities still go to worse
schools than their richer
counterparts in suburbs or at
private schools.
In an article in the latest edition of Cato Journal, Andrew Coulson notes that, on average, compensation of public
school teachers is about 42 percent higher
than their
counterparts teaching in non-unionized
private schools.
Private religious
schools do not receive funding from a religious institution, and instead rely on tuition dollars and fundraising to operate, as such, these
schools often carry higher tuition rates
than their parochial
counterparts.
Private school teachers generally earn less
than their public
school counterparts, with teachers at parochial
schools at the lowest end of the salary range.
The divide is much greater for charters located in
private spaces: they received an average of $ 2,914 less per student
than their district
school counterparts, a 16 percent difference.
In a 2014 meta - analysis, Pahlke and her colleagues reviewed the studies and found when examining
schools with the same type of students and same level of resources — rather
than «comparing [those at] the public co-ed
school to [their
counterparts at] the fancy
private school that's single - sex down the road» — there isn't any difference in how the students perform academically.
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.
«how the
school works, why we have silent classrooms with hard - working children, learning more
than anyone would have imagined possible, even more
than their
counterparts at
private schools.»
Voucher supporters, comfortable that
private schools do not deliver greater learning gains or test scores
than their traditional
counterparts, claim that vouchers are cheaper and better for business.
In many cases, students using vouchers to attend
private schools and religious academies are doing worse
than their
counterparts in public
schools.
LGBT students in public
schools are more often victims of harassment based on their gender and sexual identities and are also less likely to have access to LGBT resources
than their
counterparts in
private schools (religious or otherwise).