... and oh, what He Hath Wrought ...
SAT scores in America have been measured by the current system since 1941. Holding consistently for 21 years, scores did not go up or down for more than two years in a row. But beginning in 1963, the year following the Engel v. Vitale decision, SAT scores took an 18 year plunge downward, followed by a brief upturn when parents en masse removed their children to private schools, and then downward again.29% of high school graduates are "functional illiterates", and another 30% cannot read well enough to adequately learn other subjects. 700,000 students recently graduating from American high schools could not read their own diploma. 90,000,000 Americans (nearly one half of the adult population) are functionally illiterate (banner headlines in the early 1990's).
America, which before 1962 was at the top of the world, three decades later in nearly every area of education is consistently at the bottom compared with other major industrial countries.
Public schools spend about $3800 per student per year, private schools less than one third that amount, about $1100 (1986 figures -- well beyond that now, 2003). Public schools (88% of America's student population) produce only 61% of America's honor students, while private schools (only 12% of the student population) produce 39% of America's honor students, over three times the expected number. Public schools therefore produce less than one third the percent of honor students at over three times the cost.
(http://theroadtoemmaus.org/RdLb/21PbAr/Ed/God&Ed.htm)
What exactly, you Darwin-bots, has seperation of G-d, religion and morals from education, including G-d-less *evolution* done for education and science in our schools? (That's a rhetorical! The facts are clear!)
Seculatist education -- a key part of which is G-d-free evolution and scince -- produces far more ninnies.
Now, if you are all as wise as you think you think you are, where would you send your kiddies? To a private school -- Catholic Parochial, Christian Day School or Jewish Day School! There they have a fighting chance to get a decent education and become the scientists you Darwin-Alpha-and-Omega-bots imagine such to be.
The SAT Scores are facts. How would a scientist explain the evolution of those scores?
With denial of the obvious? Not so scientific, eh?
Hooray for Kathy Martin! She loves the next generation of kids more than some of you would seem to.
You mean "secularist." Anyway, it's the fallacy of post hoc ergo propter hoc. There were other things going on in the 60s and 70s, you know.