Domestic troubles for our nation seem only set to deteriorate.
8th-grade students nationwide scored record-low results on the Nation’s Report Card. This is the tests of American history and civics – meaning more ignorant future adults are bound to hurt the entire country with their voices and choices, a report warns.
The staggering abysmal decline of K-12 education in civics and American history is only logical, considering how the left, which hates the guts of the United States, seems to have almost fully taken over schools nationwide.
However, the latest results from the Nation’s Report Card are beyond alarming. Only 13% of American eight-graders met the standards for history proficiency. Only about 20% did so in civics, The New York Post reports.
This means more than four-fifths of the future American adults are incapable of explaining major historical events, periods, figures, or ideas. They’ll also struggle with vital national identity and civil society concepts, rights, and responsibilities.
The report insists the “appalling test scores” in question ought to be considered a “wake-up call” by every single American out there.
It emphasizes that youth, whose sense of national identity has been compromised, are doomed to grow up to become ignorant adults. This in turn will cause damage to the nation and citizens.
The Post points out the abysmal history and civics knowledge of American eight-graders aren’t the results of the COVID-19 pandemic, but of an overall “devaluation of social studies.”
For instance, the Education Department of New York state seeks to put on hold the inclusion of Regents exam results in school ratings. The exams in question cover US and world history, government, and geography.
In previous moves, similar tests for 5th– and 8th-grade students ended in 2010 and never resumed. It is noted that states handle civics and history education since federal law mandates tests only in English, science, and math.
Far-left activism nationwide seems to be cracking down on civics. In one new case, faculty at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill is trying to block a bill under which graduates of UNC or community colleges would have to take a US history or government course.
A 2019 study by RAND corporation of 223 teachers from public high schools discovered just 43% of them – a 20% decline from 2010 – thought it was “essential” for kids to be knowledgeable of American history.