Where in the World? Students Don’t Know
From Times Wire Reports
Three-quarters of the U.S. high school seniors now entering the work force or college have only a basic grasp of geography at best, an Education Department study released Friday said.
Education Secretary Rod Paige, commenting on the results of the survey that also showed that 16% of eighth-graders could not locate the Mississippi River on a map, said, “This is not acceptable.”
He noted, however, that there had been a rise in the level of competency among fourth- and eighth-graders.
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