Posted on 02/12/2010 1:05:57 AM PST by iowamark
College fails to teach civic knowledge - including American history and national institutions - and has an influence on liberal leanings among students, a new study says.
The study, conducted by the conservative Intercollegiate Studies Institute, specifically cited typically liberal positions on gay marriage and school prayer.
Richard Brake, the director of ISI's Culture of Enterprise Initiative, said high schools could be partly to blame for a lack of civic knowledge but college courses should provide more concentrated study.
"You should reinforce it and go beyond it," he said. "Learning is about reinforcement."
The study tested 2,508 Americans with various education levels on 33 basic civic knowledge questions that included political literacy, American history and economics. The overall average score was 49 percent. College graduates scored at 57 percent. Respondents also answered questions about 39 social issues. The answers were compared with those from a 2006-07 study that tested more than 14,000 college freshmen and seniors on similar issues.
Mr. Brake said college students scored better on questions relating to the history of the 1900s, including those involving Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr. He added that this is some indication of the focus of study in the classroom...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Young people are growing up not knowing why this country was founded or that liberty and capitalism are the secret to its magnificent success.
Progressives churning out sheep.
Well at least I beat the average with a substandard 75.76 %. The article highlights why someone like Obama can get elected. If we taught civics in a proper manner we could weed out most liberals from contention.
You answered 29 out of 33 correctly — 87.88 %
Average score for this quiz during February: 74.7%
bfl
Hmmm.....85% and change...I is slipping a bit.
Good Quiz.
that would be a stark example of the difference between US public school education prior to 1975... and the progressive run education system of today
later
31 of 33 correct...not too bad
We’re in some deep do-do with public screwels and the path that has been mandated.
That was my score too. I missed #30 and #33. Looking back, I think the question/answer phrasing was odd, at least for the first one.
30) Which of the following fiscal policy combinations would a government most likely follow to stimulate economic activity when the economy is in a severe recession?
33) If taxes equal government spending, then:
It seems I’ve seen these questions before. Perhaps on a previous thread here at Free Republic.
Me too and the two I missed were stupid mistakes. Sort of like the mistake I made getting out of bed today. :)
I got 32 out of 33. Missed this one:
30) Which of the following fiscal policy combinations would a government most likely follow to stimulate economic activity when the economy is in a severe recession?
A. increasing both taxes and spending
B. increasing taxes and decreasing spending
C. decreasing taxes and increasing spending
D. decreasing both taxes and spending
What SHOULD a government do? Answer is “D.” History demonstrates this. It is also common sense.
What WOULD a government do? Answer is “A.” History also demonstrates this again and again (and again and again...).
I am not sure how they came up with answer “C.” Expecting government to take half-ass measures is, I suppose, reasonable — except when government has the opportunity to foul things up as much as possible. It will do that every time. And it has.
Thanks for the link. I got 90.4%, and missed three questions, about the Lincoln Douglas debates, what a government is likely to do in a recession, and a question about something included in the Constitution...I think it was prohibiting the establishment of a state religion.
Some of the questions were very oddly framed. But I think it makes its point.
I am surprised the average score is 74%.
“College fails to teach civic knowledge - including American history and national institutions...”
If you don’t know and understand your country how can you love her, defend her, die for her?
You can’t and you won’t, which is what the scum are aiming for.
That is because there are schools that use books like Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”, and there are history teachers like Howard Zinn.
I can’t. I find that kind of thing completely, totally and absolutely depressing. I can’t even laugh at it.
If you want to see something equally as repugnant, watch the very ending of John Ziegler’s excellent “Media Malpractice” documentary, in which he interviews a bunch of Obama supporters lined up to go to some event after the election.
They would ask questions like “Which candidate visited 57 states?” or “Which candidate said they could see Russia from their house?” Some of the people were obviously educated (one was a Berkeley grad, nuff said) and the level of ignorance was appalling.
As a demonstration of the effects of the media on “the Sheeple”, It is powerful, astonishing and depressing.
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