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The Daily Signal
There They Go
Again: College Students Can’t Identify Photo of Ronald Reagan
Leah Jessen
February 16, 2016
“Survey after survey shows that recent college graduates are alarmingly
ignorant of America’s history and heritage,” a new report says.
“Was that a former president?” a student majoring in government and
international politics at George Mason University asked when shown the
picture of Reagan. “Nixon, maybe?”
Numerous students at George Mason University, located near Washington,
D.C., in Fairfax, Va., were unable to identity America’s beloved 40th
president in the same classic photo.
One student guessed Bill Clinton.
“I’ve seen that guy before,” another student stalled before giving up.
Texas Tech University’s nonpartisan political organization PoliTech and
the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonprofit organization
that promotes civic education at America’s colleges and universities,
conducted the survey. They found that the students weren’t any better
at identifying Vice President Joe Biden, but they easily
identified Kim Kardashian.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni released a survey that
found that nearly one in 10 recent college graduates think TV
personality “Judge Judy” is on the Supreme Court.
“There is a crisis in American civic education,” the group’s January
report says. “Survey after survey shows that recent college graduates
are alarmingly ignorant of America’s history and heritage.”
The same study found that “almost 40 percent of college graduates
didn’t know that Congress has the power to declare war and nearly half
couldn’t recognize the term lengths of members of Congress.”
“Studies show that our colleges and universities are doing little or
nothing to address the knowledge gap,” the report says. It notes a
survey of more than 1,100 liberal arts colleges and universities found
that only 18 percent “require students to take even one survey course
in American history or government before they graduate.”
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