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Anand, Priyanka; Mizala, Alejandra; Repetto, Andrea – Education Working Paper Archive, 2008
This paper estimates the impact of private education on the academic achievement of low-income students in Chile. To deal with selection bias, we use propensity score matching to compare the test scores of reduced-fee paying, low-income students in private voucher schools to those of similar students in public schools and free private voucher…
Descriptors: Private Education, Public Schools, Standardized Tests, Academic Achievement
American Federation of Teachers, Washington, DC. – 1998
A study examined student achievement in selected Edison schools through an analysis of test-score data. To qualify for the study, each school had to be in operation for more than 1 year and had to have solid student testing data from a solid evaluation design. Eight schools were selected, and their reading data were compared with those of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Middle Schools, Private Education
Maryland State Dept. of Education. Baltimore. Div. of Planning, Results and Information Management. – 1996
Every year the Maryland State Department of Education summarizes the enrollment and staff counts for nonpublic schools in the State using data from surveys sent to nonpublic schools in August. In 1996, the survey achieved a response rate of 94.5%. In 1996, 1,105 nonpublic schools, of which 166 were Catholic, enrolled students in Maryland. Of the…
Descriptors: Counties, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment, High School Graduates
Center for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1987
This report contains information on the participation of nonpublic school students in Chapter 1 programs. Regulations for Chapter 1 services require that all students have equitable access to them. In some school districts the nonpublic school population is not served because officials or parents of these schools do not want to participate. Since…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
McMillen, Marilyn M.; Benson, Peter – 1991
There has been concern in the private school research community that private school diversity is not captured by the three divisions of Catholic, other religious, and non-sectarian. Data from the 1987-88 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) are used in this analysis to operationalize a typology that further subdivides each group into the following…
Descriptors: Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Multivariate Analysis, National Surveys
Snyder, Thomas D., Comp. – 1994
This edition is the 30th in a series of publications initiated in 1962. Its primary purpose is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. The "Digest" includes a selection of data from many sources, and draws especially on the results of…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors, Educational Attainment