Many of my friends and 75% of my children are educators and I know that these statistics do not reflect them or their professionalism. However, the few "good apples" do not justify accepting the results of the many "bad apples" that are rotting in the public school barrel. The following is an excerpt from the article below..."A study conducted by none other than Common Core shows just how far we’ve fallen at America’s pedagogic institutions: Only 60% of students knew that WWI was fought between 1900 and 1950 — they only had to guess the half century! One in four high schoolers think Columbus discovered the New World after 1750 On the multiple choice test, less than half of high schoolers knew when the Civil War was fought. They didn’t even need to know exact dates, just that it was sometime between 1850 and 1900. 40% of students could not identify the name of the ocean on the eastern side of the United States. Nearly 60% of students could not identify the two major political parties. When asked who is in charge of the Executive Branch of the United States, 70% of high school students got the wrong answer. Fully 75% of high school students failed to identify the First President of the United States"... This, my friends, is a major part of the reason why the US is slowly devolving into a third world country. So sad. sigh...
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 20:11:25 +0000
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