The Huffington Post – Joy Resmovits
“Students posted relatively low scores on national exams in civics, history and geography in 2014, no better on average than in 2010 and slightly improved from 1994. The tests are the subject exams of the National Assessment of Educational Progress…Only 18 percent of eighth graders were proficient or better in U.S. history in 2014…Less than one-fourth of all eighth graders were proficient on the civics exam…The overall average score has increased by 6 points since the test was first given in 1998, and by 4 points since 2010. For Ted McConnell, executive director of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of School, that increase is not enough. “These results are disappointing, bad for our nation’s future and not surprising…barely a quarter to a third of students being able to demonstrate a frankly easy proficiency in these subjects is dangerous to the health of our republic,” McConnell said.”(more)