All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. The survey consisted of 34 total questions designed to measure college seniors' knowledge of American history, government, popular culture, and famous quotations. All seniors were read each question and a number of possible answer choices. Students were then asked to select the answer they thought was correct. It takes about one minute to load.
Home schooling is the way to go folks.
As the holder of a History BA and lifetime student of the field, I find this extremely dismaying, but it is perhaps not as shocking as may at first appear. History is simply given short-shrift by our educational system as a whole. Our students are not required to engage themselves here to the degree that they are in other fields of study, specifically the sciences and mathematics. It is a question of funding and the ability of the voters to recognize a need. Selective history is taught by educators who have been openly discredited and yet still allowed to teach, and false history is taught.