According to the Failing Our Students, Failing America site:
You can test your knowledge of Civics by taking this quiz.America’s Founders were convinced American freedom could survive only if each generation understood its founding principles and the sacrifices made to maintain it.
Failing Our Students, Failing America: Holding Colleges Accountable for Teaching America’s History and Institutions asks: Is American higher education doing its duty to prepare the next generation to maintain our legacy of liberty?
In fall 2005, researchers at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy (UConnDPP), commissioned by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s (ISI) National Civic Literacy Board, conducted a survey of some 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 colleges and universities. Students were asked 60 multiple-choice questions to measure their knowledge in four subject areas: America’s history, government, international relations, and market economy. The disappointing results were published by ISI in fall 2006 in The Coming Crisis in Citizenship: Higher Education’s Failure to Teach America’s History and Institutions. Seniors, on average, failed all four subjects, and their overall average score was 53.2%.
I scored 71.67%, not as well as I had hoped, but still better than average! It is only from home schooling my children that I could answer any of the questions. How well do you know civics?
1 comment:
MUCH harder than I expected; 70%.
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