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----- Original Message -----
From: "B. J. Strickland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 2:14
PM
Subject: [freedomfight] History Test Stumps Many
Collegians
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > June 28, 2000
> > Basic History Test Stumps Many Collegians
> > By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
> >
> > WASHINGTON, June 27 -- Nearly 80 percent of
> > seniors at 55 top colleges and universities,
> > including Harvard and Princeton, received a D or an F
> > on a 34-question high-school level test on American
> > history.
> >
> > More than a third of the students did not know that
> > the Constitution established the division of power in
> > American government, said the Center for Survey
> > Research and Analysis at the University of
> > Connecticut, which administered the test as part of
> > a study to measure the teaching of American history.
> >
> > Students were much more knowledgeable about
> > popular culture -- 99 percent of the seniors tested
> > identified "Beavis and Butthead" as "television
> > cartoon characters."
> >
> > But confronted with four options in a multiple-choice
> > test, only 35 percent could name who was president
> > when the Korean War began. And only 23 percent
> > identified James Madison as the principal framer of
> > the Constitution.
> >
> > Asked the era in which the Civil War was fought, 40
> > percent did not know the correct period, 1850-1900.
> >
> > Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat of
> > Connecticut, said that he and other members of
> > Congress would introduce resolutions calling on
> > college and state officials to strengthen American
> > history requirements at all levels of the educational
> > system.
> >
> > The study, sponsored by the American Council of
> > Trustees and Alumni, found that none of the 55
> > institutions required American history for graduation.
> > And only 78 percent of them required students to
> > take any history classes, said Jerry Martin, one of
> > the report's authors.
> >
> > The history test was given by telephone to 556
> > college seniors chosen at random. The questions
> > were drawn from a basic high school curriculum, and
> > many had been used in the National Assessment of
> > Education Program tests given to high school
> > students.
> >
