Kids today aren't the first to exhibit a lack of knowledge of history. This is a great article, discussing how testing at the beginning of the 20th century showed that students didn't know anything about history. There was concern that those kids wouldn't do too well in a world war. Now, a lack of knowledge about history is bad, but for some reason, this article makes me feel really vindicated. Of course, now I just bore my tutoring students by blathering about history (well, what do they expect when they ask a question about term limits?).
Posted by Barb at March 9, 2004 12:17 PM | TrackBack