If students fail history, does it matter?

CNN:

If there's a student anywhere who would be able to answer a trivia question about President Abraham Lincoln, it would be on the marble steps of his memorial in the nation's capital.

But a summertime visit there backed up recent test results that showed the majority of U.S. students don't know the most basic facts about the country's history -- Lincoln and all.

Test results released in June showed that fewer than one quarter of all students are "proficient" in American history.

Posted by Will Fitzhugh at July 29, 2011 1:30 AM
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