“I’m just curious about what you’re supposing here - that putting God back into school will improve our kids’ math and science skills? Please elaborate.”
History bears it out. Test scores from private Christian schools and homeschools bear it out.
SAT/ACT homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200105070.asp
Standardized test scores homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp
Why don’t those studies ever compare results from Honors/AP/GT students from public schools?
Interesting statistics to be sure. (Not the least of which, that females score significantly lower than males on the Math portion.)
Anyway, I went to public school and I blew those numbers out of the water!
A) Private christian schools and homeschoolers, I’m guessing, are comprised of above average family incomes and dual parent households over “all public schools,” and B) Homeschoolers “teach to the test” more than anyone.
But none of this is the point. I ask again... you are saying that “God in the classroom = higher math and science scores?”
You and I have a major disconnect.