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<p>This is a national tragedy. We are failing our kids to educate. </p>
<p>[75</a> Percent of Oklahoma Students Can’t Name the First President - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |](<a href=“http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=11141949]75”>http://www.news9.com/global/story.asp?s=11141949)</p>
<p>The immigration test is actually not as easy as this snippet makes it out to be. Take a look at all the questions they can ask you and odds are you egotistical geniuses on CC won’t be able to answer at least a few. The reason 92% of immigrants pass their first try is because they study for hours on end–there’s an industry based around getting people to pass this test similar to (but smaller in scale than) the standardized testing industry. This article is misleading in more ways than one.</p>
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<p>I do think it’s important to know the answer to some of these questions, but some of them are irrelevant. Who cares if you know how many Supreme Court justices there are? Who cares if you know who wrote the DoI? I also don’t think it matters who the first president was. Knowledge of any of those things will not enhance your civic activity or your political decisions.</p>
<p>Hmmm…I wonder how accurate the poll is. My kids would definitely know the answers to the vast majority, if not all, the questions, but I could surely see my son and friends writing in “Darth Vader” or some such silliness in protest of what they felt were stupid questions. (Or choosing the glaringly wrong multiple choice answer).</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it is not just in Oklahoma.</p>
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<p>My friend, learning English at age 50 is not easy. </p>
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<p>How Americans will compete in job market if they do not care for math/science/history and government? How knowing football/baseball/basketball scores gives you an advanatge in job market?</p>
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<p>This assumption could be valid and possible. If people are doing it on puspose, then it could be funny. However if they do not know the answer in reality, then …</p>
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<p>Lighten up. It’s an unorthodox construction, but it’s easy enough to understand. He’s just channeling Yoda.</p>
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<p>Congrates on being a medical student. My line of reasoning is that students who are poor need to focus on education so that they can compete and get meaningful job so they can support their families through decent earnings. If they fail to do so, we got problems.</p>
<p>I’m not sure that the test outcome is a valid representation of the knowledge of Oklahoma high school students. Where did the 1,000 students come from? One large high school could easily have that many. I think it’s possible that 75% of the students were fed up with the proliferation of tests and agreed to provide “joke” answers. I’d be more inclined to believe the stated result if we were given a breakdown of the incorrect answers, as well as the % correct. For example, if the students answered “George Washington,” “James Madison,” “a committee of the Second Continental Congress,” or “John Hancock” to “Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?” it would be quite different from answers like “Monk,” “Leroy Jethro Gibbs,” or (unfortunately, at this point my knowledge of television fails me). Did the test count for anything?</p>
<p>Agree with Schmoomcgoo.</p>
<p>I for one hope that number increases. Maybe if only 10% of the public votes then the government will stop pretending it has any legitimacy left.</p>
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<p>Is this correct sentence : We are failing to educate our kids. </p>
<p>If not, someone please correct the sentence and post it. Thanks</p>
<p>I say send em all back to…</p>
<p>wherever it is they came from</p>
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<p>23% answered correctly? Maybe I am naive, but I can’t accept that at face value. I suspect a flaw in the survey. Maybe the kids were insulted by the question and answered wrong deliberately. The other day a mom was showing off her 10 year old by having him recite all of the presidents in order.</p>
<p>I have to wonder about that, too. I know that back in the day, my kids got sick of all the “drug use” surveys and reported some pretty dubious answers.</p>
<p>You know, the country wouldn’t have this problem is we’d just left Oklahoma a Territory! Darn Liberals, letting Okies into the Union. They ruin EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>[signed] G. Beck</p>
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<p>Those who constructed the exam apparently failed spelling.</p>
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The survey was done by telephone.
The surveyed population was high school students (scary!)</p>
<p>Here is a breakdown of responses to the question, Who was the first president of the United States ? I think they may have been playing with the surveyors…</p>
<p>George Washington 23%
Abraham Lincoln 18%
Thomas Jefferson 15%
Franklin Roosevelt 10%
John Adams 7%
George W Bush 5% …ummm ok
Barack Obama 5% we said, first president, not first african american president
Richard Nixon 4%
JFK 3%
Don’t know 10%</p>
<p>Sample size 1000 !!</p>
<p>Sometimes, the way they word the question will lead people to answer differently even though they know the answer or wasn’t so sure. It’s like asking questions like
“john’s mother has 3 sons: quarter, nickel, what’s the third one’s name?” If it was a real exam, people would read more carefully and answer John. Whereas on phone, they might not care and because quarter, nickel, and dime go together, they will just answer ‘dime’. Still 23% is a bit low…</p>