Private Schools

Look-Alikes: A new study calls into question the conventional view that Roman Catholic schools are bastions of traditional teaching methods while public schools harbor an overabundance of progressive approaches.

When researcher Louis Chandler looked at what happens inside public and parochial schools, he found that, on average, they looked very much alike. An education professor at the University of Pittsburgh, Mr. Chandler carried out the study for the Washington-based Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a research group that supports vouchers and other...