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What facts do you think the average college-educated American (with some graduate school education) should know about American geography/history? What things do you think they should be able to provide a basic description for (ex: The White House is _______). Assume we're talking about people born and raised in these United States.
What facts do you think the average college-educated American (with some graduate school education) should know about American geography/history? What things do you think they should be able to provide a basic description for (ex: The White House is _______). Assume we're talking about people born and raised in these United States.
What facts do you think the average college-educated American (with some graduate school education) should know about American geography/history? What things do you think they should be able to provide a basic description for (ex: The White House is _______). Assume we're talking about people born and raised in these United States.
Know as in be able to say a few sentences about him? Say for Williams Jenning Bryan, is knowing "he ran for president and lost" count?
After seeing how civically-challenged people are on Leno's old "Jaywalking" bit I'd be happy if they could name all 50 states and their capitals and point them out on a map. My oldest knew them all by the time he was 7.
Know as in be able to say a few sentences about him? Say for Williams Jenning Bryan, is knowing "he ran for president and lost" count?
Not even sentences. Just a sentence. It doesn't even have to be a complete sentence. For example, "Alexander Hamilton...got capped" or "Federalist Papers...written by old white dudes hundreds of years ago."
I looked through your list. Every, single one of those you listed are taught in either US History or Government classes with the exception of Faulkner (American Lit class). A couple, Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore along with the first capital, are trivia which may or may not be mentioned. The capital one is more likely to be mentioned in Government talking about the Constitution. That's tied into the compromise that placed the Capital where it is.
Depending on the state, the Federalist Papers will be covered in Government as will Dred Scott, Brown v. Board as well as several other landmark cases. The MD High School Assessment has specific questions on it on those two cases as well as five others (Marbury v. Madison being another).
After seeing how civically-challenged people are on Leno's old "Jaywalking" bit I'd be happy if they could name all 50 states and their capitals and point them out on a map. My oldest knew them all by the time he was 7.
I'm talking about people who have had four years of college (in my specific case, four years of college in the Northeastern United States) plus graduate or professional school.
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