In addition, some schools receive considerable amounts of money from private sources. A number of the schools have eleven- month school years. Small schools and small classes achieve more. Many of the report's schools are small. If we attempted to render such small schools and small classes nationwide the construction costs, not to mention salary costs, would be staggering.
Public schools take anyone who lives in the neighborhood.
The study's schools do not. One fourth of the schools are private. Others are magnets. These schools exercise substantial selection in whom they admit. It is clear that the one high school in the study is selecting high-scoring middle school students.