Beyond Academic Performance and Faith Formation: A Focus Section on Values and the Future of Catholic Schools in the United States.

The article discusses the Catholic schools contribution to a religious plausibility structure is by supporting the development of religious belief. Topics include the increasing evidence from cognitive psychology research that underscores the importance of K-8 education in Christian belief formation; religious adults talk differently about supernatural entities than nonreligious adults, and subtle variation in adult testimony surrounding scientific unobservable entities.