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NEW BOOKS
Study Finds That Private, For-Profit School Management Improves School Outcomes
By Anne W. Howard
Impact of For-Profit and Non-Profit Management on Student Achievement: The Philadelphia Experiment, by Paul E. Peterson and Matthew M. Chingos, was prepared by two Harvard researchers who examined a restructuring of the Philadelphia public-school system. In 2002, 30 low-performing elementary and middle schools were...