Are You Civics Literate

Reading Dad 29's blog I came across a test to see how informed an American citizen I was. While I will disagree that what I missed was wrong, I still did better that average. I scored a 93.94%. The average score for all 2,508 Americans taking the following test was 49%; college educators scored 55%. While I feel good about how well I scvored, the numbers are sad.

The quiz was taken from surveys by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). Questions were drawn from past surveys & other nationally recognized exams. It doesn't say much for our education system does it? It also explains why so many people are willing to throw away their liberties for a government handout & letting "Big Brother" run things.

They ISI has a summary of its findings & what they mean. What was scariest part was that they found that "officeholders typically have less civic knowledge than the general public. On average, they score 44%, five percentage points lower than non-officeholders." This would explain a lot.

Click on the link to take the quiz: Civics Quiz.