November 24, 2006
Condemned to Repeat It
A new study sounds the alarm over undergraduates' ignorance of American history. Is it a crisis or a case of crying wolf?
The study's findings were irresistibly damning, even if they did sound vaguely familiar: American colleges, supposedly the nation's hothouses for enlightened citizenship, in fact produce civic nincompoops.
That was the word in late September from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a Delaware think tank, when it released its study, "The Coming Crisis
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