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Smaller Schools: How Much More than a Fad? The movement back to smaller schools is not just another swing of the education pendulum, but many questions about the effects of school size still need to be answered. American Educator, Winter 2000-2001.
Trends In Private School Cost and Tuition: No Immunity From the Cost Disease (1998). The escalating real costs of public K-12 education have received much more attention than the even bigger cost problems in the private sector. This study frames the seemingly endless real cost increases in education as a function of the economic characteristics of the education industry--circumstances that affect the private (usually non-profit) provision of private education as well as public education.
Are Teacher Unions Hurting American Education? A State-by-State Analysis of the Impact of Collective Bargaining Among Teachers on Student Performance (1996). This study demonstrates that in states with high levels of teacher unionization, even after controlling for the effects of demographic variables, student scores on standardized tests are higher than in states with low levels of teacher participation in collective bargaining.
