I Find Your Lack of Civics Disturbing
Delaware's own Intercollegiate Studies Institute is featued in a Newsweek article about college education:
Very interesting, and something I've definately noticed. Read the whole thing.
MSBC.com also has a civics quiz. I got them all right (but they weren't as easy as I expected them to be). There are eight questions, and right now only two questions have over half of people who have taken the quiz getting them right. The average score seems to be a 44%. See how well you do. Good luck!
Does going to college make students better-educated citizens? A new study of more than 14,000 randomly selected college students from across the country concludes that the answer is often no. Not only did many respondents at the 50 participating colleges fail to answer half of the basic civics questions correctly, but at such elite schools as Cornell, Berkeley and Johns Hopkins, the college freshmen scored higher than the college seniors. Josiah Bunting, III, chairman of the National Civic Literacy Board of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), the nonprofit that funded the study, decried “the students’ dismal scores” as providing “high-quality evidence of… nothing less than a coming crisis in American citizenship.”
Very interesting, and something I've definately noticed. Read the whole thing.
MSBC.com also has a civics quiz. I got them all right (but they weren't as easy as I expected them to be). There are eight questions, and right now only two questions have over half of people who have taken the quiz getting them right. The average score seems to be a 44%. See how well you do. Good luck!
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