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- On average, college seniors earned a failing grade?answering 54.2 percent of questions correctly?on a basic U.S. history exam, just 3.8 percentage points higher than their freshman counterparts, according to a study. more...
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- College students struggle on history test
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- Students don't know much about history, and colleges aren't adding enough to their civic literacy, says a report out today. more...
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- TAKS on its way out, but it's not history yet
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- Only elementary school students of today will avoid it in high school. more...
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- Arkansas History Flap Closing on Resolution
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- New guidelines for teaching Arkansas history in the state?s public schools won?t be blocked, despite objections from some historians, Gov. Mike Beebe says. more...
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- Arkansas Debates Guidelines on Teaching State History
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- A group of historians said new guidelines would weaken classroom instruction on the state?s heritage. more...
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- REGENTS EXAM: AMERICAN HISTORY FOR DUMMIES
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- BY MARC EPSTEIN Be Our Guest Before Mayor Bloomberg starts shelling out money to high school juniors for passing their New York State Regents exams, he would do well to bring as much scrutiny to the content of these tests as he does to the quantity of trans fats in restaurant food. more...
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- Historians Seek Moratorium on Ark. History Guidelines
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- Education coalition says move violates state law, reverses years of work to incorporate subject into curricula. more...
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- Students Gain Only Marginally on Test of U.S. History
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- More than half of high school seniors still showed poor command of basic facts like the effect of the cotton gin on the slave economy or the causes of the Korean War. more...
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- Students? Mastery of NAEP History and Civics Mixed
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- Elementary pupils? knowledge of American history and civics has improved in recent years, but older students' progress in those subjects has been more uneven. more...
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- Report: Students know basic history and civics
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