Philadelphia Inquirer, July 20, 2011
The recently released findings of the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress provided another opportunity for the usual hand-wringing about how little American kids know about American history these days. An Inquirer article reported that only 13 percent of the high school seniors who took the test “showed a solid grasp of the subject.”
Sounds dismal. But before we give up on this generation, we should ask ourselves a few questions. Continue reading “A revisionist view on history tests”