Posted on 09/25/2017 11:25:29 AM PDT by SES1066
Researchers at the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) surveyed over 1,000 American adults, finding a shocking lack of knowledge as it pertains to U.S. politics among the general populace.
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“Protecting the rights guaranteed by the Constitution presupposes that we know what they are. The fact that many don’t is worrisome,” says Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, in a press release. “These results emphasize the need for high-quality civics education in the schools and for press reporting that underscores the existence of constitutional protections.”
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A throw-away line in the article does give conservatives credit for being more likely to be able to name all three branches than liberals or moderates. However this gives no percentage breakdown so it may be too embarrassing to the authors of the study!
¿Puede usted nombrar las tres ramas del gobierno de Estados Unidos?
I went to a run-down, sort of rough inner-city high school, and yet I appear to be infinitely better educated than these Millenials I keep running across today.
Uh, left leaning, right leaning, fence sitting?
The branches of the federal government they do know: EBT, SSI, and Section 8.
Is this the same Annenberg of factcheck.org funded in part by Soros?
Just making a point. I’m solid conservative living in one of the many conservative counties in California. Cheers!
Have you seen a middle school Civics textbook lately? Left wing propaganda. And my son was in a Christian school.
You must be up in our neck of the woods.
Public schools.
Mission *getting* accomplished!
James Clapper’s answers were:
1) Me
2) Me
3) Also Me
Un problema, que país? Los Estados Unidos de Mexico y los otros ...
Oh, that’s easy, dine in, take out, and delivery!! And NO anchovies this tiny!!!
What’s so hard about naming all three branches of government? Welfare, Food Stamps and Obamacare. See, that was easy.
Though from observing the news in recent years, if they had answered “Judicial, Judicial and Judicial” I’d be compelled to give them at least half-credit.
And remind me why we did away with literacy exams to vote?
The correct answer helped me earn my US citizenship in 1964.
HUD, Welfare and EBT.
1. Obama’s pen,
2. Obama’s phone.
Nope, I can’t name all 3 either...
I enjoy asking libs spewing garbage about “First Amendment rights”, if they can name the five protections it guarantees. I’ve never had one name all five. Same with the race baiters when I ask them to tell me Martin Luther King Jr’s “Dream”. Not once have I heard the correct answer. Three branches of Government? Left, Right and Middle? LOL!
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