Today's teens are surprisingly short on knowledge about historical or cultural reference such as Uncle Tom's Cabin or McCarthyism a study out today finds. Though students scored poorly in some topics, those subjects covered in school, of those surveyed, 88% knew about the bombing of Pearl Harbor and 97% could identify Martin Luther King Jr. as the man who delivered "I Have a Dream."
Check out the entire article at:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-02-26-teens-history_N.htm
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