"According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 85% of eighth-graders score below proficient in U.S. history, as do about 75% in geography and civics. Teachers are under more pressure today than in recent years to teach history in an even-handed way, which is in conflict with a more basic problem: many students reach middle and high school without enough background knowledge to grasp much history at all, let alone understand it in all its complexity. This leaves them vulnerable to oversimplified versions of ...
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"According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 85% of eighth-graders score below proficient in U.S. history, as do about 75% in geography and civics. Teachers are under more pressure today than in recent years to teach history in an even-handed way, which is in conflict with a more basic problem: many students reach middle and high school without enough background knowledge to grasp much history at all, let alone understand it in all its complexity. This leaves them vulnerable to oversimplified versions of the country's past"--
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