SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Flynn Effect, A Nation At Risk

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

2006 geographic literacy survey: asking kids to identify states. 1 in 10 british say hitler wasn"t real, 1/2 say king arthur was real. Still at risk: many 17-year olds are bad at history. Tough choices or tough times: 17 y/o americans are not ready for the workplace. A nation at risk: by the dept. of education. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on america the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. -this quote influenced many. Sputnik shows uncle sam that american science isn"t ahead of everyone. Life magazine contrasts american kid (stephen) and russian kid (alexei) For 170 years: someone is going to eat our lunch. Americans have always worried about a stupidity epidemic. In 1900s, you only needed to go to school through 8th grade. Sat scores fell through 1980 as # of seniors taking the test increased.