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American students struggle to grasp world geography
By: Bill O'ReillyJuly 20, 2011
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Boston Globe: Even as schools aim to better prepare students for a global workforce, fewer than one in three US students are proficient in geography, with most eighth-graders unable to explain what causes earthquakes or accurately describe the American Southwest, according to a report released yesterday morning. Overall, high school seniors demonstrated the least proficiency on a 2010 test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the nation's geography report card, with 20 percent found to be proficient or better, compared with 27 percent of eighth-graders and 21 percent of fourth-graders.
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