Students of the Best & Most Expensive Schools, Along with Schools with the Largest Government Subsidies, Do the Worst on Basic US History Test
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) provides the details here. The results are depressing, but with all of the pretend majors and absurd areas of studies students can get involved in (ie., Peace Studies, Ethic Studies, Women’s Studies, et cetera), I’m not surprised. However, many times, entering freshman frequently did better on this history test than seniors! Yikes.
Outside of the Ivy-league or equivalent schools, other schools were picked at random. The only Ohio university included in the survey was Mount Vernon Nazarene University, which was ranked 39 out of the 50 schools.
You can take the quiz here. It’s basic high school-level stuff, and I answered all questions correctly- Even though I think #50 could have 2 answers.
Even though they weren’t surveyed, I can’t imagine that OSU, OU, Toledo U, Akron U, et cetera could do much better than MVNU or Harvard. So if Ted Strickland and the Ohio legislature really cared about Ohio’s colleges and universities, instead of capping tuition (which creates an artificial demand and does nothing about the supply curve) and increasing funding for bloated educational bureaucracies, maybe taxpayer dollars should be invested in history books instead? If so, here is the first book I recommend buying. And ISI’s books are also worth reading.
Joe C. said,
Wrote on September 19, 2007 @ 10:04 am
I give this book for Christmas presents, “The Patriot’s Guide to American History,” by U. of Dayton history professor Larry Schweikart and co-author M. P. Allen. Do yourself a favor and give/get it.
Carrie C. said,
Wrote on September 19, 2007 @ 10:29 am
Just a clarification - MVNU was listed as #19 on the list, not #39 - and according to the story, the University was “randomly selected.”
Thanks!
Matthew said,
Wrote on September 19, 2007 @ 10:32 am
Carrie- I see that you are from MVNU so I thank you for joining in the discussion.
I mentioned that it was randomly selected, but the list here shows MVNU to be #39:
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/report/tables.html
19 is Cornell.