Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Public and private schools

  • High School And Beyond
  • Published:
Society Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. the University of Chicago, USA

    James S. Coleman (professor of sociology)

Authors
  1. James S. Coleman
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Sally B. Kilgore
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Thomas Hoffer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

He is the author of numerous books, including Resources for Social Changeand Mathematics of Social Action,and co-author of Equality of Educational Opportunity.

Sally B. Kilgore is special project assistant to James Coleman and the National Opinion Research Center for a longitudinal study of high-school students and book review co-editor for the American Journal of Sociology.

Thomas Hoffer is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education, University of Chicago, and associated with the National Opinion Research Center.

A revised version of the report, of which this article is a summary, is forthcoming as a book, High-School Achievement: Public, Catholic, and Other Private Schools.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Coleman, J.S., Kilgore, S.B. & Hoffer, T. Public and private schools. Society 19, 4–9 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712901

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02712901

Keywords

Search

Navigation