By now, you’ve well heard about the abysmal student test scores that were recently released in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Wisconsin has the shameful distinction of having the largest gap of any state between black and white students in fourth grade.
You also saw our Current Events story last week reporting how Catholic school students scored higher. This fact is being explored in great detail by national pundits. See this Wall Street Journal article that explores the shocking disparities, which was briefly referenced in last week’s Council for American Private Education (CAPE) article. In case you couldn’t access it because of the paywall, we’ve excerpted it for you.