Friday, May 25, 2007

Students Gain Only Marginally on Test of U.S. History

Federal officials reported last week that students in 4th, 8th and 12th grades had scored modestly higher on an American history test than five years earlier, although more than half of high school seniors still showed poor command of basic facts like the effect of the cotton gin on the slave economy or the causes of the Korean War.

This from the New York Times.

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