Clueless in America
By Bob Herbert
Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it's widespread. A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19786.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert
Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it's widespread. A recent survey of teenagers by the education advocacy group Common Core found that a quarter could not identify Adolf Hitler, a third did not know that the Bill of Rights guaranteed freedom of speech and religion, and fewer than half knew that the Civil War took place between 1850 and 1900.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19786.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bob+Herbert
rudkla - 22. Apr, 22:55