{"id":255,"date":"2008-04-24T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/255"},"modified":"2008-04-21T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T20:02:16","slug":"how-much-history-civics-do-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/255","title":{"rendered":"Know your history &#038; civics? Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>USA Weekend<\/em> for April 11-13, 2008 reported how poorly 14,000 seniors and freshmen at 50 institutions of higher education performed on a quiz about basic U.S. history and civics: the average score was a mere 52%, which probably included a <em>lot<\/em> of guesswork. Well, I could have told you how history-challenged we are from watching Jaywalking on The Tonight Show. I once watched as Mr. Leno asked someone when the War of 1812 took place&#8211;and the person got it wrong!<\/p>\n<p>Take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americancivicliteracy.org\/resources\/quiz.aspx\">civics quiz<\/a> yourself. I did, and I scored considerably better than Harvard&#8217;s average of 69.6%, but not as well I would have liked.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/dontknowmuch.jpg\" alt=\"Don't Know Much About History cover\" align=\"left\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/zinn.jpg\" alt=\"A People's History of the United States cover\" align=\"right\" height=\"153\" width=\"104\" \/>Brush up with books like <em>Don\u2019t know much about history<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection,  E178.25 .D37 1990) or <em>A people\u2019s history of the United States<\/em> (Main Collection,  E178 .Z75 2003). It could be a summer project! That way you won&#8217;t embarrass yourself if Jay Leno asks you questions from his little blue cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA Weekend for April 11-13, 2008 reported how poorly 14,000 seniors and freshmen at 50 institutions of higher education performed on a quiz about basic U.S. history and civics: the average score was a mere 52%, which probably included &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/255\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[178,807,231,506,808],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-books","tag-civics","tag-history","tag-literacy","tag-quizes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}