Public vs. Private Schools

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This paper examines the general belief that parents of children want more choice about where their children go to school and how they are taught, including the right to use public funds to pay for private school tuition. It looks at how across the country, parents can choose from public schools, charter schools funded in a variety of ways, secular private schools, schools associated with a specific religion, or home schooling.

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Introduction
Why Have Choices?
Types of Public and Private Schools
Who Chooses Private Schools?
Similarities and Differences
Conclusion

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"In affluent areas, both public and non-public schools had the opposite problem. They reported that parents intruded more than was helpful in areas of teaching approach and curriculum. They considered the parents' views often to be uninformed and dogmatic, and both groups reported highly demanding schools. The parents were well educated themselves and believed they knew what made for excellence in education (Rothstein, 2000). Complaints in public schools included the amount of preservatives in the school lunches, the amount of homework assigned, whether teachers were progressing at an adequate pace through the curricula, to the sequence of instruction in mathematics."

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