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Monday, May 05, 2008

College Republicans/College Democrats Debate Tomorrow

The College Republicans and the College Democrats will be debating tomorrow at 7:00 PM in Purnell Hall room 115.

There are four general topics with two questions in each section. Four students from each group will be debating questions within the topics of: Immigration, the economy, healthcare and foreign affairs. Come support your party, political views or just come watch your friends!

FREE refreshments will be provided after the debate.
Yours truly will be debating the Foreign Affairs topic, which includes a question on Iraq, and one on the environment centered around the Kyoto Protocol. Should be a good time.

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Posted by Ryan S. at 5:04 PM | | |

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Colleges Failing History

ISI (based in Delaware) released the results from this year's civics quiz. USA Today reports:

The study from the non-profit Intercollegiate Studies Institute shows that less than half of college seniors knew that Yorktown was the battle that ended the American Revolution or that NATO was formed to resist Soviet expansion. Overall, freshmen averaged 50.4% on a wide-ranging civic literacy test; seniors averaged 54.2%, both failing scores if translated to grades.

"One of the things our research demonstrates conclusively is that an increase in what we call civic knowledge almost invariably leads to a use of that knowledge in a beneficial way," says Josiah Bunting, chairman of ISI's National Civic Literacy Board. "This is useful knowledge we are talking about."

You can take the quiz here. I missed one question for a score of 98.33%, but I don't think I learned much of it while being here at the University.

This stuff is important for citizens to know, and it seems colleges are failing us if students can't answer a majority of pretty basic questions.

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Posted by Ryan S. at 9:28 AM | | |

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