Of course they don't or else they would stop voting for the same idiots in Washington who fail to learn US history and repeat the same stupid mistakes such as economic policy and non-stop wars. Even though we know the lack of regulation that Clinton and the GOP implemented led to the recession, we still can't figure out that our political leaders back in the 1930's were onto something when they created regulations. It's almost as though the political class would prefer students to know nothing about history and grow up to be ignorant.
Go figure.
U.S. students don't know much about American history, according to results of a national test released Tuesday. Just 13 percent of high school seniors who took the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, called the Nation's Report Card, showed solid academic performance in American history.
The two other grades didn't perform much better, which just 22 percent of fourth-grade students and 18 percent of eighth-graders scoring proficient or better.
The test quizzed students on topics including colonization, the American Revolution and the Civil War, and the contemporary United States. For example, one question asked fourth-graders to name an important result of the U.S. building canals in the 1800s. Only 44 percent knew that it was increased trade among states.
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