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By STEPHANIE BANCHERO

"WSJ's Stephanie Banchero has details of a National Assessment of Educational Progress study showing students at the fourth, eighth and twelfth grade levels struggle with basic history questions.

Fewer than a quarter of American 12th-graders knew China was North Korea's ally during the Korean War, and only 35% of fourth-graders knew the purpose of the Declaration of Independence, according to national history-test scores released Tuesday.

Don't Know Much About History?
Try your hand at some of the questions on the NAEP history tests.


..The results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed that U.S. schoolchildren have made little progress since 2006 in their understanding of key historical themes, including the basic principles of democracy and America's role in the world.

Only 20% of U.S. fourth-graders and 17% of eighth-graders who took the 2010 history exam were "proficient" or "advanced," unchanged since the test was last administered in 2006. Proficient means students have a solid understanding of the material.

.The news was even more dire in high school, where 12% of 12th-graders were proficient, unchanged since 2006. More than half of all seniors posted scores at the lowest achievement level, "below basic." While the nation's fourth- and eighth-graders have seen a slight uptick in scores since the exam was first administered in 1994, 12th-graders haven't."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...WhatsNewsThird

Mac will be glad ta know that he will not have much trouble cornvincin' the current generation of NEA Gubment monopoly trained HS graduates that Socialism wasn't invented by Marx and has been arround fer 2000 years. He can also tell 'em that the USA is the very worst country in the world and is responsible fer all the world's troubles.... N' his real life hero: John PUKE Kerry is a war hero not a treasonous puke that stabed his fellow servicemen in the back, n' werked closley with Hanoi Jane Fonda and the Commies in the North.


Wonderful....future Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Commie termites waiting fer the kool aid ta fill their little heads.

[truck]

I am not surprised as most ppl could careless about history......

& why should they??? So what if China supported NK........... DO they know or care who supported the British traders & militants during our arm insurrection?? Again, could careless...........

Perhaps the reason kids & adults don't grasp our dumbOcracy is cause it is a lie...........

We have a two party dictatorship & we have say in actually very, very little....... & that is intentional...........

Of the various so called "democracies" in the world today we are likely one of the least democratic........ 300+ million ppl & only two voices???

You kidding me??? STUPID!!!!!!!!!!

Israel as an example has a 10th th population & ten times more voices in the political arena?????

Con job anyone???

Perhaps so, @ least for us idiots participating in the process.....

[illiderob]

http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/genweb/ottawa/exam.html

The following document was transcribed from the original document in the collection of the Smoky Valley Genealogy Society, Salina, Kansas. This test is the original eighth-grade final exam for 1895 from Salina, KS. An interesting note is the fact that the county students taking this test were allowed to take the test in the 7th grade, and if they did not pass the test at that time, they were allowed to re-take it again in the 8th grade.

[gydrorway]

I am not surprised as most ppl could careless about history......

Hmmmmmmm...... if ya ignore history, (say like the FACT that Keynesian economics didn't werk in 1932), then yer likely gonna repeat those SAME past misstakes.

'Course I guess dim wit Democrats did win large majorities and four terms in the White house n' were able ta grow Nanny Gubment with the great depression they prolonged and made much worse with their Keynesian spending, soooooo some Americans in the political class won with Keynes.

& why should they???

Yuppers stoooooooooooooopidity certainly will help grow Gubment, if ya don't know that Communism/Socialism has killed more humans then any other ideology in human history, and Central Corntrol was an abject failure that caused the USSR ta do a face plant, then ya can drink loads of kool aid and go down that road again since ya don't know any better.

So what if China supported NK........... DO they know or care who supported the British traders & militants during our arm insurrection?? Again, could careless...........

Yuppers stoooooooooopid kool aid drinkers with no knowledge of history can be real handy.....fer Liberal/Progressive/Commie/Socialist termite pols.... who want power.....

Perhaps the reason kids & adults don't grasp our dumbOcracy is cause it is a lie...........

Our Democratic REPUBLIC is no lie, some Liberal/Progressive/Commie/Socialist termites jus' really hate and blame the place that's all: BIG BILL. N' history shows that there has always been that sub set of people, (a percentage of the population), in this great Country that really hates n' blames all that it stands for. Problem is we elected those types to a majority in 2006 and 2008..... we are gonna try ta undo that damage in 2012 after the start we got in 2010.

We have a two party dictatorship & we have say in actually very, very little....... & that is intentional...........

Horse poop, Liberal/Progressives/Commie/Socialist termites luv ta pervert language, facts and history which is much easier with an NEA educated population that knows all about homosexuality butt no historical facts, logic or critical thinking skills.

Bring back those real heros like Chairman Mao, n' Uncle Joe Stalin, eh?

Of the various so called "democracies" in the world today we are likely one of the least democratic........ 300+ million ppl & only two voices???

Two political parties is much more then two voices... yer perverting facts, language and logic....

You kidding me??? STUPID!!!!!!!!!!

No: BIG BILL, not kidding at all.... ya smokin' something real strong?

Israel as an example has a 10th th population & ten times more voices in the political arena?????

So ya prefer a parlamentary system.... big deal...

Con job anyone???

Nope, butt if ya were educated by the modern NEA ya wouldn't know any better eh: BIG BILL?

Perhaps so, @ least for us idiots participating in the process.....

I guess we will have ta agree ta disagree.... not surprizin' neither!!!