Private School Pupils Research Articles

Private and public choices in public education: An investigation of trustee effects

The paper applies the concepts of the horizon problem, agency costs, monitoring, and special interest incentives to trustee management of public schools and higher education. We examine whether South Carolina's 1984 Education Improvement Act, a major restructuring of educational organization and spending in South Carolina, is related to the ratio of pupils in private versus public schools. We employ 30 years of county level data in South Carolina, and we uncover several things. There is no statistically credible relation between public school expenditures per pupil and the private school/public school enrollment ratio. However, we do find that the directed changes in rules, organizational structure, and incentives mandated by the 1984 Educational Improvement Act are associated with a reduction in the relative number of children attending private school. We interpret this to mean that the features of the law requiring better accountability and the like were perceived by parents to make for better education while the increased money spent was only a transfer to teachers or some other groups; we find that organization matters more than money.

Work Attitudes, Knowledge and Attributions of Private and State School Pupils: Evidence from the YOUTHSCAN Study

The occupational socialisation of young people is identified as taking place both in work contexts, and previous to work entry in school and family settings. The paper focuses on the role of school experiences in the development of work perceptions, undertaken via a comparison of young people educated in private and state schools. Secondary analyses of the YOUTHSCAN longitudinal data set are reported, comparing data collected at age 16 from private and state educated young people (n = 909) drawn from matched social class backgrounds at birth. Data are reported on work related knowledge and skills, employment attributions and perceptions of job‐getting, and characteristics viewed as important in future work. Contrary to expectations, few differences were found between the private and state educated samples. It is suggested that whilst educational and career outcomes may be variable between private and state educated young people, wider aspects of work socialisation may result in more similar outcomes. Meth...

The Private Sector of Education in Britain: a review of past research and recommendations for future work

Summary The paper reviews research and debate on the private sector of education in Britain. Research undertaken to date is described as having taken place at three main levels, referred to as the ‘political’, ‘outcomes’ and ‘individual‐psychological’ levels. Following the review of research at these three levels, a number of neglected areas are identified, the investigation of which would contribute significantly to a greater understanding of the private/ state school debate. These areas are: a focus on girls and young women in private schools; the experiences of Assisted Place Scheme pupils; the study of the attitudes and values of private school pupils; the investigation of private school ethos and culture; exploring how private school pupils gain the ‘edge’ over state school pupils; and the isolation of school effects from social class and family background effects.

Catholic and Protestant Schools, a Better Choice in the Netherlands?

Abstract This paper focuses on the influence of the sector of education (Catholic, Protestant and public) on the success of their pupils in tertiary education and on the labour market in the Netherlands. In the United States Coleman and Hoffer (1987) could hardly find any differences between the job prospects of pupils of private and public schools, but they did find effects of Catholic secondary education on success in tertiary education. In this study, which is based on longitudinal data of a nationally representative cohort of Dutch primary school leavers in 1965, an analogous comparison is made between the success in tertiary education and the job careers of the pupils who attended Dutch Catholic, Protestant or public secondary education. Differences are found between success in tertiary education and on the labour market of those who attended Catholic, Protestant or public Dutch schools. Pupils of public schools enter the university more often than pupils of private schools and pupils of Catholic schools enter the lower valued tertiary vocational education more often than pupils of Protestant or public schools. Significant effects of school sector were only found for those job characteristics which indicate the kind of job (sector of the job, nature of the job) but not for job characteristics which indicate the level of job. Especially pupils of Protestant schools less often have jobs in the administrative‐financial sector and the medical‐social sector than pupils of non‐Protestant schools. They also less often have jobs which have an exact or social nature. These differences in success in tertiary education and on the labour market are not systematically in favour of the private Catholic and Protestant schools.

Racial Segregation Among Public and Private Schools

Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore (1982) analyze racial enrollment in public and private high schools and conclude that private schooling does not affect the overall racial segregation in American schools. Four serious flaws in their argument render their analysis meaningless and their conclusion improper. (a) The segregation index they use in their empirical analysis is a function of the racial composition of the set of schools to which it is applied. Because public and private sectors differ in proportion black, their index exaggerates the difference between public and private sectors and misspecifies the key comparison in the final stage of their argument. (b) To permit evaulation of their argument, they assume that private school pupils are reallocated to public schools according to the existing racial composition of public schools. This assumption is implausible, and its use contributes tautologically to their conclusion. (c) Their claim that within-sector and between-sector components of segregation are counterbalancing is based on a very insensitive test of their argument, and the test itself is statistically incorrect-variance components are all positive. (d) Their treatment of the nation's public schools as one school district and the nation's private schools as another has no real-world applicability. Segregation should be examined within specific administrative and geographic settings. The only unflawed portion of their analysis is their confirmation of the fact that private schooling, nationwide, tends to separate white students from the racially more diverse public sector. The rest of their analysis and conclusions should be recognized as irrelevant to the policy debate they seek to influence.

A cross-cultural examination of the creative thinking ability of public and private school pupils in England, Scotland, and Germany.

(1971). A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Creative Thinking Ability of Public and Private School Pupils in England, Scotland, and Germany. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 301-302.

Prevalence and pattern of intestinal parasites among pupils of private and public primary schools in an urban centre, Nigeria

Background: Intestinal parasitic infection is highly prevalent among children in the tropics. Identifying the most at risk group and subsequent targeted intervention will lead to cost effective and easy to implement control programme. We thus aim to determine the prevalence and pattern of intestinal parasite among pupils from public and private schools.Material and Method: This was a cross-sectional survey. Participants were recruited through multistage stratified random sampling. Information were collected using a questionnaire and early morning freshly passed stool sample was collected and processed from each participating pupil. Stool microscopy was done using saline and iodine preparations. Eggs were counted using Stoll’s method. Data obtained was analyzed using EPI INFO version 3.5.1.Results: Four hundred and twenty pupils were studied, 210 pupils from each school type. Prevalence of 78.1% and 17.1% were recorded for the public and private schools respectively. The pupils from the public schools were 17.23 times more likely to have intestinal parasitic infestation compared to those from private schools (OR =17.23, 95% CI = 10.6-28.01, p = <0.0001). Ascaris lumbricoides was the most frequent isolate in both the public (62.8%) and private (66.7%) schools. The prevalence of multiple parasitic infestation was 14.8% in the public schools and none in the private schools. Socioeconomic status and source of water were the main factors with significant effect on the prevalence of intestinal parasite (p<0.0001).Conclusion: Intestinal parasitic infestation remains a very common health issue among the children particularly in the public schools. Distribution of free antiparasitic drugs to pupils at the beginning of every term should be incorporated into the school health program.Key words: Intestinal Parasites, Ascaris lumbricoides, public school, private school, socioeconomic status.

State Regulations of the Participation of Pupils of Private Schools in Title I of the Federal Aid to Education Act of 1965

State Regulations of the Participation of Pupils of Private Schools in Title I of the Federal Aid to Education Act of 1965

The intelligence and achievement of private school pupils.

The intelligence and achievement of private school pupils.

Objections to the Bill Extending Compulsory Vaccination to Pupils in Private Schools

Objections to the Bill Extending Compulsory Vaccination to Pupils in Private Schools

GROWTH STANDARDS OF HEIGHT AND WEIGHT FOR GIRLS IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS

Although the best standards to be used for public school work are those published by Baldwin, we believe that separate tables are necessary for measurements of pupils in private schools. For boys, such tables have already been published. 1 This paper presents data on 1,030 girls in five private school in or near Chicago: Alcott School (73), Chicago Latin School for Girls (192), North Shore Country Day School (139), Francis W. Parker School (85) and the University of Chicago Laboratory School (541). Part of the measurements were made in the first four schools by one of us (C. G.) and part by Mrs. Naomi Giffen and in the last named school by the school physician. The principal points in the technic were as follows: the height was measured with the subject barefoot and against a wall, and the weight was taken on balance scales with the subject naked (occasionally with

Review of The Classification of Pupils in Private Schools.

Review of The Classification of Pupils in Private Schools.