He co-authored High School Achievement: Public, Catholic and Private Schools Compared (1982, with Thomas Hoffer and Sally Kilgore) and Public and Private High Schools: The Impact of Communities (1987, with Hoffer).
But the former Ofsted inspector says that he is "at a loss" to explain how objectively there could be such record numbers of good and outstanding schools, compared with a few years ago.
In both cases, school choice rules narrow the range between the highest and lowest quality schools compared to neighborhood assignment rules, and these changes in school quality are capitalized into equilibrium housing prices.
Others were uncertain about the roles and responsibilities of schools compared with those of local public health.
We first show that immigrants in Italy enroll disproportionately into vocational high schools, as opposed to technical and academically-oriented high schools, compared to natives of similar ability.
A YouGov poll in August found that 59% of Conservative voters think the government should encourage academic selection and build more grammar schools, compared with 38% of the population as a whole.
As a result, the drive - involving hundreds of New York City students - began two months earlier than usual and involved over 940 schools, compared to the 600 that participated last year.
The findings suggest that the multi-strategy intervention involving leadership support, staff training and telephone follow-up support, was effective in increasing the uptake of vegetable and fruit breaks in schools compared to more minimal, information-based support.
GEE analysis was used to examine the change in the prevalence of vegetable and fruit breaks in intervention schools compared to comparison schools.
