Comparing Achievement in Public and Private Schools
180 Bevier Hall
905 South Goodwin Street
Professor Coleman is well-known for his 1966 report, "Equality of Educational Opportunity," which dealt with effects of school desegregation on quality of education and for his 1982 book, High School Achievement: Public, Catholic and Private Schools Compared. He has served on the President's Science Advisory Committee and is a member of the National Academy of Education, the American Philosophical Society and the National Academy of Science. In his lecture here, he will discuss follow-up studies on the subject of his 1982 book.
Co-sponsored by: Survey Research Laboratory, School of Social Sciences, College of Education, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, and George A. Miller Committee
Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago