Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Ain't no edukation goin' on........College Graduates Don't Know Basic Facts About the Constitution

ACTA Press Release: College Graduates Don't Know Basic Facts About the Constitution |  ACTA
"WASHINGTON, D.C., September 8, 2015 — The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) today released a survey that shows how little college graduates and the general public know about the Constitution.
According to the study, nearly 10% of college graduates think Judith Sheindlin — commonly known as Judge Judy — is on the Supreme Court;
one-third of college graduates can’t identify the Bill of Rights as a name given to a group of Constitutional amendments; and
32% believe that Representative John Boehner is the current president of the U.S. Senate. Shockingly, 46% of college grads don’t know the election cycle — six years for senators, two years for representatives.
Turning to the general population, the report finds that over half (54%) of those surveyed cannot identify the Bill of Rights accurately, and
over 1 in 10 (11%) of those ages 25–34 believe that the Constitution must be reauthorized every four years."


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