According to a data analysis performed by Kathleen Porter-Magee, an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute, “If Catholic schools were a state, they would be the highest performing in the nation on all four NAEP tests.”
Amid a contentious national debate over who should exercise greater control over what children learn — teachers or parents — this nugget of information may prove to be kryptonite to one side of that argument.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) bills itself as the “nation’s report card,” and has been handing out grades since 1969. A congressionally mandated program, the NAEP provides an essential snapshot of what students know in Math and Reading every two years, helpfully broken down by hundreds of factors, including race/ethnicity, socio-economic standing, and gender.
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