Me, neither. I'm still learning as I sort and sift through all the lies I was told to get my degree (frown).
"Students’ grasp of US history lags; From presidents to precedents, knowledge sparse" by Sam Dillon, The New York Times / June 15, 2011
NEW YORK — US students are less proficient in their nation’s history than in any other subject, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday....
I should have taught; however, imagine how frustrating it would have been for me (before I got kicked out for telling truths about contemporary history like 9/11, Iraq, et al).
Federal education officials said they were encouraged by a slight increase in eighth-grade scores since the last time the history test was administered, in 2006. But even those gains offered little to celebrate....
The government could find a nut in a log, if you get my meaning.
History-education advocates contend that poor showings on the tests underline neglect shown the subject by policy makers, especially after the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act began requiring schools to raise scores in math and reading but in no other subject. The federal accountability law, advocates say, has given schools and teachers an incentive to spend less time on history and other subjects.
“History is very much being shortchanged,’’ said Linda K. Salvucci, a history professor in San Antonio who is chairwoman-elect of the National Council for History Education.
Many teacher-education programs, she said, also contribute to the problem by encouraging aspiring teachers to seek certification in social studies rather than in history....
Or getting something like a degree in gay!
The students did best in economics....
What a $urpri$e here in AmeriKa.
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And this I just can't believe:
"Russian neo-Nazis get life terms for killings" by Associated Press / June 15, 2011
ST. PETERSBURG — Two leaders of a neo-Nazi gang were sentenced yesterday to life in jail for a rash of hate killings that terrorized minorities in Russia’s second-largest city.
The St. Petersburg City Court said Alexei Voevodin and Artyom Prokhorenko headed a gang that enlisted Russian supremacists and soccer fans aged 16 to 22 who preyed on non-Slavs with dark skin or Asian features, kicking and stabbing them to death....
Don't those idiots know Hitler -- you know, that Nazi guy -- consider the Slavs subhuman?
At least, that is what my college textbooks told me.
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