James S. Coleman, in Noire Dame Journal of 'Social Capital' Law, Ethics, & Public Policy (NO.3, 1988), Notre Dame Law
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Two years ago, in a controversial study comparing 1,015 public and private high schools, Coleman, a University of Chicago sociologist, found that private schools, par- ticularly Catholic schools, frequently out- performed public schools.
Less widely noted at the time were dif- ferences among the private schools. The "independent" p...