{"id":31,"date":"2011-07-04T10:59:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T14:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-07-04T10:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T14:59:42","slug":"4-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/04\/4-july\/","title":{"rendered":"4 July ????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/wp-content\/misc\/usapolls\/US110615\/July%204th\/Complete%20July%201,%202011%20USA%20Marist%20Poll%20Release%20and%20Tables.pdf\">Marist poll<\/a> provides some stunning figures. Presumably, every American knows that 4 July is Independence Day, but only 58% of Americans know which year America declared its Independence. Among American adults younger than 30 years old, that figure drops to 31%. Overall, about a quarter of Americans don&#8217;t know from which <em>country<\/em> America declared its Independence.<\/p>\n<p>What have public schools been doing for the last 40 or 50 years? In 1971, the year I graduated from high school, nearly any high school graduate could associate events for numerous years. Just naming the year was sufficient: 323 BCE, 44 BCE, 476, 1066, 1492, 1588, 1776, 1812, 1815, 1854, 1860, 1876, 1914, 1929, 1939, 1941, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>In 1971, an average high school student would have been able to associate significant historical events with at least a dozen of those years, if not all of them. In 2011, I doubt that public high school graduates from the last ten years could, on average, associate significant events with a quarter of those years, if that many.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to do a simple comparison using such a metric between public high school students and homeschooled students. I&#8217;d predict that the homeschool students would kick ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/wp-content\/misc\/usapolls\/US110615\/July%204th\/Complete%20July%201,%202011%20USA%20Marist%20Poll%20Release%20and%20Tables.pdf\">Marist poll<\/a> provides some stunning figures. Presumably, every American knows that 4 July is Independence Day, but only 58% of Americans know which year America declared its Independence. Among American adults younger than 30 years old, that figure drops to 31%. Overall, about a quarter of Americans don&#8217;t know from which <em>country<\/em> America declared its Independence.<\/p>\n<p>What have public schools been doing for the last 40 or 50 years?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/07\/04\/4-july\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: 4 July ???? &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}