CEP Report: Private vs. Public High Schools

We're taking a bit of a break from posting while we're getting all these October evaluation reports finished! Here's a news items that showed up in my email:

Today, the Center on Education Policy released a report examining the academic and other outcomes for low-income students attending public urban high schools compared to those attending private schools. The study, based on an analysis of the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988-2000, finds that, once family background characteristics are taken into account, low-income students attending public urban high schools generally performed as well academically as students attending private high schools. The study also found that students attending traditional public high schools were as likely to attend college as those attending private high schools. In addition, the report also finds that young adults who had attended any type of private high school were no more likely to enjoy job satisfaction or to be engaged in civic activities at age 26 than those who had attended traditional public high schools.