Public schools as good as private schools in raising math scores, study says
Friday, May 23, 2008 - 13:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Students in public schools learn as much or more math between kindergarten and fifth grade as similar students in private schools, according to a new University of Illinois study of multi-year, longitudinal data on nearly 10,000 students. The results of the study appear in the May issue of the influential education journal Phi Delta Kappan.