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Article: Public schools do as well as private schools, report finds
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- July 15, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- The federal Education Department reported Friday
that, in reading and math, children attending public schools
generally do as well as or better than comparable children in private
schools. The exception was in eighth-grade reading, where the private
school children did better.
The report, which compared fourth- and eighth-grade reading and
math scores from nearly 7,000 public schools and more than 530
private schools in 2003, also found that conservative Christian
schools lagged significantly behind public schools when it came to
eighth-grade math.
The study, carrying the imprimatur of the National Center for
Education Statistics, part of the Education Department, was ...