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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 02:51 PM Original message |
Colleges get failing grade teaching civics. |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
1. It's time to admit that we are a dumb populace overall. |
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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:04 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Did you have a civics class when you went to high school? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:13 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Yeah,in ninth or tenth grade.This was in the early 80's. |
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FormerDem06 (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 06:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. College is a platform for individual teachers to push their own agendas |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Maybe it has something to do with the way it's taught |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I think so...I was lucky in that the teacher I had was funny and made the class fun. |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
4. It wasn't required at our college. |
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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. It seems to me that teaching citizens and future voters |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 05:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. Yeah, you'd think. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. About what I thought |
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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Then how do you account for the ease with which Republicans |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:53 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. The Guggenheim Foundation working to destroy higher education???? |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
10. Doesn't surprise me. I think that if most were tested on math or writing or English, you'd get the |
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Jonathan50 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 06:11 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. When did learning for the sake of learning go out of style? |
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