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School Choice in the Light of the Effectiveness Differences of Various Types of Public and Private Schools in 19 OECD Countries
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Dronkers, J.; Robert, P. – Journal of School Choice, 2008
The paper approaches the issue of school choice in an indirect manner by investigating the effectiveness of public, private government-dependent and private independent schools in 19 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries selected from the PISA 2000 survey for this purpose. In a multilevel approach we estimate these…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries
School Achievement of Pupils from the Lower Strata in Public, Private Government-Dependent and Private Government-Independent Schools: A Cross-National Test of the Coleman-Hoffer Thesis
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Corten, Rense; Dronkers, Jaap – Education Working Paper Archive, 2006
We consider the question whether pupils from the lower social strata perform better in private government-dependent schools than in public or private-independent schools, using the PISA 2000 data on European high schools. In the eighty's, Coleman and Hoffer (1987) found in the USA that the performance of these pupils was better at religious…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Secondary School Students, Socioeconomic Status