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...study reported that when graduating seniors were quizzed on the U.S. Constitution, the Puritans, and the like, they answered an average of only 54 percent of questions correctly. This proves empirically that most Americans are either dumb enough to forget the basic “civic literacy?? that they are taught in grade school, or else so bad at paying attention that they never actually learned it in the first place...
Administered to over 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools, the survey gauged “civic literacy?? through 60 multiple-choice questions. Among other things, it quizzed students about the Puritans, the Constitution, and why “free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning...
...Faculty’s reticence to accord history its own place within the general education hierarchy raises grave concerns not only about the sincerity of the General Education program’s original goals—which, so it would seem, necessitate some historical literacy??but more importantly about the legitimacy of those goals themselves. The Task Force’s preliminary report emphasized the importance and inherent value of so-called “liberal learning,” defined as the “free inquiry undertaken without concern for topical relevance or vocational utility?...
...lasts, and how generalizable it is to everyday cognition, are questions that remain to be answered.”James P. Gee, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of such books as “What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy?? and “Why Video Games are Good for Your Soul,” has contributed an article for the first issue of the Review. He believes that we can learn a tremendous amount from video games.“Good commercial video games incorporate good learning...
...often talk about “sexual literacy??; how would you describe someone who is sexually literate...