Wednesday, June 15, 2011

History seems likely to repeat in US...

The U.S. Department of Education administered a history exam called the "National Assessment of Educational Progress", aka the Nation's Report Card, to a representative sample of public and private schools, testing 7,000 fourth-graders, 11,800 eighth-graders and 12,400 high-school seniors. The test results were then broken into "below basic," "basic," "proficient" and "advanced."

Only 20% of U.S. fourth-graders, 17% of eighth-graders 12% of 12th-graders who took the 2010 history exam were "proficient" or "advanced," unchanged since the test was last administered in 2006. Given that USA is a democratic society, it's critical that we prepare our children to vote from an informed perspective.