{"id":10157,"date":"2013-11-25T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=10157"},"modified":"2013-11-25T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T18:11:02","slug":"are-private-schools-actually-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/are-private-schools-actually-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Private Schools Actually The Best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10158\" alt=\"educating yorkshire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/educating-yorkshire.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Private school children are\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/416760.article\">disproportionately represented<\/a> at the top universities. So this means that private schools are obviously better, right? Maybe not:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Australian academics looked at 26,000 students aged (8-9) and (10-11) from state and private schools. The raw data showed privately schooled kids did better, on average.<\/li>\n<li>However. Once backgrounds were controlled for (parental education, health, household income) they showed that there was no difference between private and state schools.<\/li>\n<li>The most significant correlation was between birth size and low academic success.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, their results show that a child&#8217;s home life matters much more for their academic success than their place of education.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Admittedly, the study only looks at pre-teenage children, and a follow-up study on children of more varied ages would be of great value.\u00a0For more information, head on over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/article.aspx?storyCode=6371662\">the TES<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tes.co.uk\/article.aspx?storyCode=6371662\">Times Educational Supplement<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private school children are\u00a0disproportionately represented at the top universities. So this means that private schools are obviously better, right? Maybe not: Australian academics looked at 26,000 students aged (8-9) and (10-11) from state and private schools. The raw data showed privately schooled kids did better, on average. However. Once backgrounds were controlled for (parental education, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/educating-yorkshire.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10160,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/10160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}