If students fail history, does it matter?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/26/education.history.soboroff/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1
I took the quiz they had and while I got 100%, I was left to guess on 3 or 4 of the questions and only the context allowed me to narrow down the choices. To me history can be fascinating, but the way it is generally taught (e.g., memorization of disconnected facts) fails to interest the vast majority of students.
Not sure how to improve the situation (much like our idiotic government being populated by pathological liars), but things can’t get better until somehow education becomes meaningful.
