An innovative Bible education program offered in public schools across Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa is having a profoundly positive impact on students’ academic performance, behavior, and emotional well-being, a new survey finds.
LifeWise Academy offers religious instruction during the school day and thousands of students are seeing their lives improved by the curriculum.
New data confirms the program is also positively affecting public school metrics like attendance, instruction hours, and classroom participation.
Ambassador Enterprises commissioned a third-party data research firm, Thomas P. Miller & Associates (TPMA), to gather and analyze data from 6,478 different schools across Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, to understand the effectiveness of LifeWise programming in their region.
In 76 of the studied schools, LifeWise Academy has been in place for multiple school years.
And the survey found that the schools’ attendance rate increased in just the first year of the program – most attendance improved by nearly 7%.
Additionally, student participation increased by 10% in a LifeWise program school.
In the second and third years, schools with LifeWise programming saw improvements in discipline, with declines in both in-school and out-of-school suspensions.
These results have led to a net increase in instruction hours for schools with LifeWise programming.
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