10% of College Graduates think Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court

10% of College Graduates think Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court | Intellectual Takeout
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) released a new report entitled “A Crisis in Civic Education” at the beginning of 2016. 
Based on the numbers in the report as well as those available from other reputable sources such as the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), we truly do have a crisis on our hands.

...If one doesn’t understand the history of his country or how its government works (and why), yet he still votes, how informed is that vote? 
Furthermore, how much more open to the influences of a demagogue or a flatter is that uneducated man? 
Yes, our system of government depends upon an educated population.

That’s why the latest report from the ACTA is so horrifying. 
From NAEP, we have long known that high school seniors are woefully undereducated in American history and civics. 
The latest report from 2010 shows that only 24% of high school seniors were considered proficient in civics and only a pathetic 12% of them were considered proficient in history. 
And being “proficient” wasn’t much of a challenge when you look at the sample tests. 

...Here are some of the results:...

• We live in a dangerous world—but almost 40% of college graduates didn’t know that Congress has the power to declare war.

• College graduates were even confused about the term lengths of members of Congress. Almost half could not recognize that senators are elected to six year terms and representatives are elected to two-year terms

• And 9.6% of college graduates marked that Judith Sheindlin—“Judge Judy”—was on the Supreme Court!
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