Are there any independent studies that prove atheist students get higher grades then Christian students?

Question

Please post sources, but no atheists / Christian sites.

Answer 1

If it helps any, I am a straight A student and on the Dean's list. I am a Christian and I pray before every test and during study time. I KNOW it makes a difference, because I am not the smartest cookie in the pack.

Answer 2

I'm looking and looking but could only find the study below which isn't independent.

There is a line about students at religious schools outperforming their public school counterparts. Thing is, I went to a Catholic high school because it was a college prep and far better academically than the public school I would have had to go to. I'm atheist so it would be difficult to say if the religious school students were doing better because they had a faith system or if the fact that it is a private school is why they benefit.

I'm going to keep looking. Again, though, it would be so tricky to draw any conclusions. Things like number of parents at home, family history, socioeconomics, etc. would all affect a student's success.

Answer 3

Parochial schools of various religious denominations always score higher in any standardized testing they have a higher standard and they don't let kids sit in classrooms and cause trouble they are kicked out thus they have more time actually teaching kids the subjects they are supposed to learn.

While in public schools they have laws about kicking kids out of school, unless they have done something very violently wrong, on average the kids are taught maybe an hour a day the rest of the day is correcting, recess, and lunch time. They always score lower on standardized testing because of the discipline problems.. and this varies from state to state.
Check your state Superintendent of School sites or a site with standardized testing for various states. Since public school will not reveal who is atheist vs Christian that is the closest your going to get.

Answer 4

Christian schools offer a better level of instruction. There is no question about it. The test scores over a long period of years are conclusive. The annual Stanford Achievement Test administered to first through eighth grade Christian school students in the western states shows these students to be seven to nineteen months ahead of the national norm in reading, and seven to thirteen months ahead of the national norm in all subject areas.

Answer 5

Actually, the kids in Private Schools are for the most part above average. But it is only because that we have less students and the teacher can spend more time with us. But i fail to see why this would matter.

Answer 6

Why do you think it is intelligence that make people become Atheists? Well not in my case. I'm just of average intelligence lots of Christians smarter than me. I suppose they would say they all are. It would be nice if it were true though. Then we would just have to educate people.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

it is not in simple terms (or perhaps greater often than not) a "e book on atheism," yet i desire to propose Daniel C. Dennett's "Breaking the Spell," advocating the considerate study of religion as a social / cultural / neuro-organic and organic phenomenon, yet additionally masking the evidence and arguments against the existence of gods AND the frustrating difference between "theory in god" and "theory in theory in god." There are some very solid essays in "The transportable Atheist," yet countless them are tremendously difficult going even for a school junior, no longer to point an eleventh-grader.

Answer 9

That depends, is the teacher an Atheist or Zeroian?

Answer 10

I don`t think it matters to me because God pays my bills and blesses me.A masters degree can`t do that.