Notes
- Leonard L. Baird , The Elite Schools: A Profile of Prestigious Independent Schools ( Lexington , Ma. : D.C. Heath , 1977 ), p. 9 -10. The average tuition (including room and board) of the schools studied in this article was $5,000 in 1977.
- Ibid. , p. xv.
- E. Digby Baltzell , The Philadelphia Gentleman ( Chicago : Quadrangle , 1971 ).
- C. Wright Mills , The Power Elite ( New York : Oxford University Press , 1956 ).
- G. William Domhoff , Who Rules America? ( Englewood Cliffs , N.J. : Prentice-Hall , 1967 ).
- Baird , Elite Schools , pp. 11 – 13
- Baltzell , Philadelphia Gentleman , pp. 305 – 07
- Baird , Elite Schools.
- Robert Gutwillig , “The Select Seventeen: A Guide to Upper Class Education,” Esquire 54 ( 1960 ): 162 – 63
- Domhoff , Who Rules?
- James S. McLachlan , American Boarding Schools: A Historical Study ( New York : Scribner's , 1970 ).
- Otto F. Kraushaar , American Non-Public Schools: Patterns of Diversify ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1972 ).
- James Cass and Max Birnbaum , Comparative Guide to American Colleges , 8th ed. ( New York : Harper and Row , 1977 ).
- Alexander W. Astin , Who Goes Where to College? ( Chicago : Science Research Associates , 1965 ).
- “Fact File: Faculty Compensation ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education , July 17, 1978 , pp. 9 – 12
- Advisory Panel on the Scholastic Aptitude Test Score Decline , On Further Examination ( New York : College Entrance Examination Board , 1977 ), p. 6 .
- See Alexander W. Astin , “College Preferences of Very Able Students,” College and University 40 ( Spring 1965 ): 282 – 97 for a discussion of this point.
- This figure was computed as follows: with the 1976–1977 salary (Digest of Educational Statistics, 1977–1978, Table 102), 13.39 percent was added which equals the average value of difference between salary and total compensation as reported by The Chronicle data, and 5.8 percent which represents the average full professor's increase in 1977–1978 salary over the 1976–1977 salary. This latter percentage was taken from The Chronicle report.
- These data are derived from information presented in Table 76 (p. 77 ) of W. Vance Grant and C. George Lind , Digest of Educational Statistics ( Washington , D.C : National Center for Educational Statistics , 1978 ).
- Grant and Lind , Digest , Table 105, p. 101 .
- Astin , “ College Preferences. ”
- James Feron , “Parents in Suburbs are Turning Increasingly to Private Schooling,” The New York Times , March 23 , 1979 , p. A1, B2. A spokesperson for the National Association of Independent Schools is quoted as saying that “Applications are up on a nationwide level, from 10 percent to 60 percent, and in the Northeast is all but a deluge.” my gratitude and appreciation equally so.