The state of education
Over at American Civic Literacy, they have a 60 question quiz on US civics.
How well can you do?
I took the test and got 59 out of 60. The only question I missed was:
"The question of why democracy leads to well-ordered government in America when disorder prevails in Europe is central to: "
The test is here: http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx
The sad part is how poorly many folks do.
1 comment:
I was surprised how much of my political philosophy I remembered.
But, to my mind, any competently educated person who applied themselves remotely in school should have gotten at least an 80% on that test.
But as you saw, that's not the case.
I didn't dig - I wonder how it works across the age cohort - can you watch a general decline over time, i.e., the oldsters doing better than the youngsters, because we were educated under a different pedagogical paradigm.
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