There's more coverage of Fordham's Catholic schools report today, including a front-page Washington Times story (check out the great pictures); a nice Washington Post metro story; a post on "The Corner"; and a New York Sun piece.
Speaking of the Sun, reporter Elizabeth Green got many things right but one big thing wrong. Let's take a look:
A report is being released Friday by a national think tank based in Washington, D.C., the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, concluding that 1,300 inner-city Catholic schools have closed since 1990...
So far so good
...displacing about 300,000 students...
Yes
...and that, if demographic patterns keep up, almost all such Catholic schools could be gone by 2018.
Well, no. What we did say was that if trends continue, another 300,000 students could be displaced over the next twenty years. That would leave many fewer urban Catholic schools--but more than zero.
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