US STUDENTS DON'T KNOW ABOUT THEIR HISTORY ............. HOW STRANGE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Students in the United States are scoring lower and lower in US History according to the recently-released results of a nation-wide survey :

                                                                  American students are apparently far less proficient in their nation’s history than in any other subject.  This, according to results of a nationwide test released yesterday, means that most fourth-graders were unable to say why Abraham Lincoln was an important figure, and few high school seniors able to identify China as the North Korean ally that fought US troops in the Korean War.  Overall, 20 percent of fourth-graders, 17 percent of eighth-graders, and 12 percent of high school seniors demonstrated proficiency on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.