An issue of "Policy Notes" from the Institute for Research on Educational Finance and Governance (IFG) presents the proceedings of a conference held in October 1984 that focused on the question of what public and private schools can learn from each other. The issue itself consists of an overview addressing important issues in the public/private comparison and briefly reviewing the conference papers that were presented. Also included in this compilation are 12 looseleaf (unbound) "Policy Perspectives" sheets (each dated Winter/Spring 1985) summarizing the 15 conference papers. Topics include academic achievement in public and Catholic schools, promoting effective schools, differences in school organization and administration, affiliations of private schools, private school participation and public policy, public and private schools abroad, secular schools and religious values, tuition tax deductions, desegregation and private schools, blacks in urban private schools, and patterns of minority employment in public and private schools. (TE)