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Article: Don't Know Much About History--Never Did.(telephone surveys reveal college students' lack of historical knowledge)
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- Phi Delta Kappan
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- December 1, 2003
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Surveys of students' knowledge of history are guaranteed to produce hand-wringing and accusations of appalling ignorance. Mr. Paxton challenges both the validity of such surveys and the assumption that today's students know far less than those of previous generations.
Children nowadays love luxury, have bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for their elders. -- Socrates
COLUMNIST David Broder ranted about "historical illiteracy." A resolution co-sponsored by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) declared that the next generation is "in danger of losing America's civic memory." A headline published by the CATO Institute ...