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bobbyw24
06-22-2011, 04:40 AM
“Is our children learning?” as George W. Bush so famously asked.

Well, no, they is not learning, especially the history of their country, the school subject at which America’s young perform at their worst.

On history tests given to 31,000 pupils by the National Assessment of Education Progress, the “Nation’s Report Card,” most fourth-graders could not identify a picture of Abraham Lincoln or a reason why he was important.

Most eighth-graders could not identify an advantage American forces had in the Revolutionary War. Twelfth-graders did not know why America entered World War II or that China was North Korea’s ally in the Korean War.

http://buchanan.org/blog/the-dumbing-down-of-america-4783

MelissaWV
06-22-2011, 04:44 AM
Funny. When I first saw this study, it said they could identify Lincoln, but not accurately state two reasons he was important. I am guessing "trouncing the rights of the state and drafting citizens to die for him" were not the two answers they were looking for.

Korea is hardly taught in schools. Also, why we entered WWII ... I wonder what the "correct" answer is for that one?

aGameOfThrones
06-22-2011, 05:42 AM
Funny. When I first saw this study, it said they could identify Lincoln, but not accurately state two reasons he was important. I am guessing "trouncing the rights of the state and drafting citizens to die for him" were not the two answers they were looking for.

Korea is hardly taught in schools. Also, why we entered WWII ... I wonder what the "correct" answer is for that one?

Terrorist hate us for our freedoms, yes?

FrankRep
06-22-2011, 05:53 AM
http://www.thenewamerican.com/images/stories2011/00columnists/selwyn_duke.001.jpg



U.S. education, with destructive agendas and lack of discipline, has produced students who are, by the latest study, still woefully ignorant of history.


U.S. Students Ignorant of History; Will Repeat Mistakes of Past (http://www.thenewamerican.com/opinion/selwyn-duke/7885-us-students-ignorant-of-history-will-repeat-mistakes-of-past)


Selwyn Duke | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
16 June 2011