It's a question that does not have a simple answer: are Catholic schools "better" than public schools here in the United States?
You will hear and read many Catholic school parents and students make the claim that they are indeed better in every way.
But you can also find many proponents of the American public school system who will claim that there is nothing inferior about the education they provide.
There have been a number of formal studies made on the issue. Mai Miksic with the CUNY Institute for Public Policy took on the question in his June 2014 piece "Is the 'Catholic School Effect' Real"?
Miksic's piece concludes that "there is no lack of rigorous research...indicating a possible Catholic school advantage."
However, Miksic also correctly points out that many proponents of Catholic schools point to simplistic statistics such as higher standardized test score results achieved by their students.
Education is, in the end, about much more than test scores.
You will hear and read many Catholic school parents and students make the claim that they are indeed better in every way.
But you can also find many proponents of the American public school system who will claim that there is nothing inferior about the education they provide.
There have been a number of formal studies made on the issue. Mai Miksic with the CUNY Institute for Public Policy took on the question in his June 2014 piece "Is the 'Catholic School Effect' Real"?
Miksic's piece concludes that "there is no lack of rigorous research...indicating a possible Catholic school advantage."
However, Miksic also correctly points out that many proponents of Catholic schools point to simplistic statistics such as higher standardized test score results achieved by their students.
Education is, in the end, about much more than test scores.
