RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Unasked Questions
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 515
OP 518
DO 10.17763/haer.51.4.m6r8201583026046
VO 51
IS 4
A1 Guthrie, James
YR 1981
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/51/4/515.abstract
AB Scholars should be free to question conventional wisdom, but there should be little cause for celebration when they subsequently confirm it. The recent study by James Coleman,Thomas Hoffer, and Sally Kilgore, Public and Private Schools, confirms the conventional belief that private schools are different from public schools and that students from each perform differently. Since their inception, the two kinds of schools have been perceived as being different by students, parents, the general public, and policymakers.Public and Private Schools' unsurprising finding will unfortunately succeed in provoking controversy over an issue that hardly deserves such attention.