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June 15, 2011
Nationwide Test Shows America's Students Dumber Than A Box Of Rocks On History
Topics: Political News and commentariesFrom the N.Y. Times:
American students are less proficient in their nation’s history than in any other subject, according to results of a nationwide test released on Tuesday, with most fourth graders unable to say why Abraham Lincoln was an important figure and few high school seniors able to identify China as the North Korean ally that fought American troops during the Korean War.Read more.Over all, 20 percent of fourth graders, 17 percent of eighth graders and 12 percent of high school seniors demonstrated proficiency on the exam, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Federal officials said they were encouraged by a slight increase in eighth-grade scores since the last history test, in 2006. But even those gains offered little to celebrate because, for example, fewer than a third of eighth graders could answer even a "seemingly easy question" asking them to identify an important advantage American forces had over the British during the Revolution, the government's statement on the results said.
With such a poor knowledge of history and the lack of perspective that results from it, little wonder so many Americans struggle to understand how exceptional our nation is and why an "untransformed" America is so important to Americans and the world. America is great because America is America ... not the European-socialist model that Liberal-progressives want her to be.
Posted by Richard at June 15, 2011 7:39 AM
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