Posted on 05/05/2015 5:18:15 PM PDT by yuffy
Results of the “Nation’s Report Card” released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that only 18 percent of 8th-graders are “proficient” or above in U.S. history, and only 23 percent are proficient in civics.
Despite hundreds of billions of dollars poured into education programs in the United States via the U.S. Department of Education, the “Nation’s Report Card” states that 8th-graders’ average NAEP scores in U.S. History, Geography, and Civics demonstrated no significant change since 2010 when students were last assessed. In geography, just 27 percent of U.S. 8th-graders performed at or above the proficiency level on the NAEP assessments.
Among white, black, Hispanic, and Asian students, Asians scored highest, with 33 percent proficient in U.S. History, 44 percent in geography, and 40 percent in Civics. White students are at 26 percent proficiency level in U.S. History, 39 percent in geography, and 32 percent in civics. Only 6 percent of black students scored at the proficient level in U.S. History, 7 percent in geography, and 9 percent in civics, while Hispanics were at 8 percent, 11 percent, and 12 percent, respectively.
A breakdown between students who attend public versus private schools finds that only 17 percent of 8th-graders who attend public school reached the proficiency level in U.S. History, 25 percent in geography, and 22 percent in civics, while 31 percent of those students assessed who attend private schools were proficient at U.S. History, 44 percent at geography, and 38 percent at civics.
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It’s a national disgrace.
And all according to plan.
I would have thought it was half that. The leftist schools no longer make U.S. History a requirement.
Its not a fail if they meant to do it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3286397/posts?page=16#16
Deliberate liberal communist agenda. Obama is doing a freaking jig.
But they sure as hell know their right to throw bricks at police in Baltimore. I wonder who taught them that?
I have to admit, I thoroughly hated history and politics during grade 8. Thus, I barely made it through history at times. It was not until I was in my mid twenties and after graduating in the geological sciences in university when I really got into it. Just saying.
Makes it so much easier for liberals to lie about the past and make up their own false histories.
The dumbing down of “the children” has been ongoing for decades - ramped up with Carter federalizing/creating the Dept of “Propaganda Education”.
Now tell me the demographics.
LOL. The other 82 percent think Lincoln was a hero.
I am torn. What are the students ‘suppose’ to learn about history? According to most courses History started in 1980 when Reagan destroyed the utopia and everything bad is because of him. Obama is the savior and we are all his children.
If I was assured students were learning correct history then I would feel bad that there are so many idiot teachers failing children. BUT I know the history books in the education racket are guided by the reprehensible Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky.
It’s probably far lower for adults.
...or should I say, college grads.
“Euros came in a ship, killed a ton of until-then happy Indians living in splendor, then they kidnapped Africans to steal their labor, there was some war and later then the Germans attacked Pearl Harbor, but Oliver Stone stormed Mount Suribachi, saving the day. Martin Luther King attacked the German Shephards and firehoses, and took away all those rusted little water fountains. Some honkies later, Obama came. The end.”
Carter .....still loves all Marxist dictators.
Only the good die young....
All that money since LBJ. *snort*
Eighth graders have only heard of HRC and Obama: not much to choose there.
That isn’t a fail. That’s a perfect score.
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