Posted on 09/19/2007 2:02:19 PM PDT by bs9021
The National Civic Literacy Board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute has just announced the shocking results of its second collegiate study: “Some of America’s most prestigious universities, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, UVA, Brown and Duke, have all flunked basic civic studies.”
These results were analyzed at the National Press Club on Tuesday, September 18, 2007. Present at that discussion, was none other than the President of the ISI, himself, Mr. T. Kenneth Cribb Jr. Also present was the distinguished chairman of ISI’s National Civic Literacy Board, Lt. General Josiah Bunting, and the Honorable Eugene W. Hickok, ISI’s National Civic Literacy Board member and a former deputy secretary of education.
This study was the second one that was done by ISI, and over 14,000 students at 50 U.S. colleges and universities participated. This second study by the ISI reveals that “some of the most expensive universities with the highest paid presidents are among the worst performing in the country,” as they pay little attention to “the teaching of America’s history and institutions to their undergraduate students.” Some of these prestigious universities, which receive some of the largest government subsidies, are the University of Pittsburgh, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Duke.
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Not surprising in the least, but at least the students are well drilled on the premier homosexual-transgendered-socialist-minority-physically less abled-greenie-animal rights activists of our times. You know, the really important stuff.
While I would agree that the scores from these places were not good, four of these schools were among the top six of the schools ranked, which doesn't exactly speak well for most of the schools they forgot to mention.
ML/NJ
Got an 88.33%. Not to shabby for a high school edjmakated former cab driver. But I suspect middlin’ average amongst Freepers.
Beat me by a question. (@#%$ philospher kings.)
86.4%
You’re a hell of a Cab Driver
Got a 90 but was annoyed at a couple that I missed.
I got that one wrong too.
>> While I would agree that the scores from these places were not good, four of these schools were among the top six of the schools ranked, which doesn’t exactly speak well for most of the schools they forgot to mention. <<
Grove City, a very Christian liberal arts college ranked #2. (Why no other such Universities?)
Other religious schools:
Notre Dame: #12
Gonzaga: #29
Mt. Vernon Nazarene: #39
St. John’s University (which has been “excommunicated”!!!): #48
St. Thomas (Florida) University: #50
Frankly, I’d wanna get sweatshirts from St. Thomas (Florida) University. What’s that, you say? That’s not how they abbreviate the University on their sweatshirts? I’m as disappointed as when I got my Fordham University sweatshirts.
95% for me. Missed three. I owe it all to Free Republic.
55 out of 60 ...91.67%
Yep, I got bit by those bastages too!
Where’s the quiz?
I got a 93. My highest level of education was chef’s school. I had no college level history or civics courses. I read a bit, but only about a dozen of the questions had answers that I learned after high school. Much of it I learned in junior high. I’m not bragging. I’m commenting on what a sad state this country is in when the best educated college level students in the nation do so poorly on a test like this. Our form of government will not survive if our citizenry do not understand its basics.
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