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The twilight of American Culture: �2000, by Morris Berman
National Science Foundation: Oct. 1995
58% said electrons are larger than Atoms.
63% believe humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
53% believe the Earth revolves around the Sun in a day or month, while only 47 % had the correct answer, one year.
91% cannot state what a molecule is.
42% or Americans cannot find Japan on a map. (Garrison Keillor NPR, 22 March 1997)
15% could not find the U.S.A. on a map. (Garrison Keillor NPR, 22 March 1997)
40% of Americans were not aware that Germany was part of World War Two.
(NY Times, 1995)
58% of high school students cannot understand a newspaper editorial.
84% of college seniors could not answer which President ignited the Korean War.
50% of high school students were void of knowledge of the Cold War. (US Dept. of Education, 1995)
60% of students had not clue how the U.S.A. was formed. (US Dept. of Education, 1995)
41% of teens cannot name the three branches of government. (National Constitution Cent. 1998)
50% of students in the 1990’s National Assessment of Education Program cannot give the time line of the Civil War.
21% of adults believe that the Sun revolved around the Earth, while 7% could not decide either way. (Northern IL, University survey of two thousand random adults)
49th � Is the ranking of the US out of 158 countries, by the UN, when it pertains to Literacy.
60% of Americans never read a book of any form.
6% of Americans read a book a year.