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american history quiz....
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SkiDork
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78.79%
Brownsville Brooklyn
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67% at least i passed:roll
nly time i ever read anything about american history was in political science at my beloved www.iup.edu. i did not pay attention in school until my senior year at northport high:-o:roll:
severine
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Wouldn't have mattered. Unless you're taking a college course specifically dealing with it, most schools never get past WWI; history apparently doesn't exist after that.
Brownsville Brooklyn
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Wouldn't have mattered. Unless you're taking a college course specifically dealing with it, most schools never get past WWI; history apparently doesn't exist after that.
curriculums have to change. kids need to know MATH, how it works, whats a stock & a bond, whats a mortgage, whats a bank loan, how to calculate interest, how does the fed reserve operate, whats a credit score, how does it work & on & on....america also needs parents that actually want to be parents....
ctenidae
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Wouldn't have mattered. Unless you're taking a college course specifically dealing with it, most schools never get past WWI; history apparently doesn't exist after that.
Or before 1783
You answered 32 out of 33 correctly — 96.97 %
Question #7 - D. Gettysburg Address- I thought that sounded pretty Jeffersonian, guess not.
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severine
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Really? We usually covered (albeit briefly) Columbus on... but always ran out of time at the end of the year for after WWI.
Brownsville Brooklyn
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how about some us business history? lol
what was the first industry in america? what organization is regarded as the greatest economic entity ever created?
what was the first industry in america? what organization is regarded as the greatest economic entity ever created?
Marc
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#27 and #29 wrong. Stupid questions.
#27 and #29 wrong. Stupid questions.
Warp Daddy
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78.79% too
ctenidae
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1783 is "Modern" world history. In my round 2 College career, had to take it again. One of teh students asked why the book started at 1783, and the proff wasn't sure. Being the smart ass I am, I had to chime in- US constitution, French Revolution, the beginning of the rule of law, government on paper, relatively important elements of the modern world. I slept through the rest of the semester.
SkiDork
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Nice score!
ctenidae
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say you answered D and E on those two.
Marc
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You are psychic. We should harness this powers, no?
ctenidae
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I'm just that good. They're the best two answers, save for the correct ones. Unless you're anti-free market and go with the whole coersion bit.
Marc
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Workers and strippers of the world unite.
ctenidae
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Dyslexics Untie!
riverc0il
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This is more civics than history though some historic questions were included. 84.85% here but I think some questions/answers were not phrased well. Such as Question 8 about the Supreme Court in which the correct answers to me read that the President can just appoint justices any time he wants when the Court disagrees with them whereas you need to await a vacancy. Question 29 is tricky in that I was skimming the answers and didn't see the word "directly" in the correct answer. 33 I should have read more carefully as well, tricksy on the wording.
I had no idea on questions 4 and 7.
I had no idea on questions 4 and 7.
riverc0il
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Another interesting thing to note:
The web page's sub title is The Diverging Influences of the College Degree & Civic Learning on American Beliefs. Just for the record, I think every bit of my knowledge effecting my scores on that quiz came from high school social studies classes and learning on my own. Though I will credit a college philosophy class or two with helping me with the answer for #13... however, ultimately I decided that answer based on my post collegiate readings into the founding of the country.
Now you could make an argument that college educated citizens are more likely to do additional readings and learning. But I doubt that is the aim of the research here. If the citizenry of the country is not doing as well in history and civics, I would look to the high schools, not the colleges, as the solution. This is stuff people should know regardless of higher education.
/soap box.
EDIT: Interestingly enough, I reviewed their prior year's research findings which seem to conclude exactly as I suggested that college does not increase civic literacy and historical knowledge and in some cases college students forget what they learned in high school and have lower scores as senior's. Perhaps the agenda here is to get more required civics and history electives at the college level? The institution I work for just recently began a financial literacy elective, I thought that was an awesome idea and I wish I had that option as an undergrad.
The web page's sub title is The Diverging Influences of the College Degree & Civic Learning on American Beliefs. Just for the record, I think every bit of my knowledge effecting my scores on that quiz came from high school social studies classes and learning on my own. Though I will credit a college philosophy class or two with helping me with the answer for #13... however, ultimately I decided that answer based on my post collegiate readings into the founding of the country.
Now you could make an argument that college educated citizens are more likely to do additional readings and learning. But I doubt that is the aim of the research here. If the citizenry of the country is not doing as well in history and civics, I would look to the high schools, not the colleges, as the solution. This is stuff people should know regardless of higher education.
/soap box.
EDIT: Interestingly enough, I reviewed their prior year's research findings which seem to conclude exactly as I suggested that college does not increase civic literacy and historical knowledge and in some cases college students forget what they learned in high school and have lower scores as senior's. Perhaps the agenda here is to get more required civics and history electives at the college level? The institution I work for just recently began a financial literacy elective, I thought that was an awesome idea and I wish I had that option as an undergrad.
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ctenidae
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I don't think they're saying people should know this stuff. I think their real agenda (considering the "Media Highlioghts" of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News) is that college educated folks are elitists who don't know history and are leading the country astray. Of course, I haven't bothered to read their "latest findings," as I believe it will only make me angry, but that's my guess.
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