In a balanced overview of public versus private education, author Harlow G. Unger provides facts, figures, and practical advice to show that private schools offer affordable and outstanding education for children of all classes. Comprehensive, practical, and heartening, this complete consumer's guide includes numerous special features, including: advice on identifying the special needs of gifted and learning-disabled children, a frank and fair appraisal of the advantages and disadvantages of city and country day schools, coed and single-sex schools, and boarding, religious, and military schools.… (more)