Comments on: Common Core

By: Matt Spak

Matt Spak — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:17:43 +0000

Well, I got 29 of 33. But to quantify that just a bit, I went to technical high school, and never was required to read any of the novels listed on here. Due to a strong history background, it’s pretty easy to decipher the setting for “A Tale of Two Cities”. . .and even without READING Greek mythology, you should absorb most of the general characters through a classical education. But, like most of the older people taking this survey, I am a product of a different system. The way that my children are being instructed currently, I’m not sure they would have scored as well.

By: P Lake

P Lake — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:39:47 +0000

I knew everything except the biblical reference. I graduated with a degree in history a few years ago. A professor of mine gave a similar test at the start of a methodology course at my college and the results were very poor. There is something wrong with social science education in our schools. This is purely anectdoctal, but some of the worst teachers I encountered in middle/high school were my history teachers.

By: C Spencer

C Spencer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:58:25 +0000

ouch. I wrote what I was going to say as I was taking the quiz, then having scrolled downwards didnt see it and wrote it out again.. that’s why you have an enormously long comment with tons of repetition… o.o

By: C Spencer

C Spencer — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:50:01 +0000

I’m a junior in college with a history major. But none of my classes have been about this stuff. It’s only topics I know from high school- university has been about Byzantines and Gender History etc etc

I got a 30/33- an ‘A’..
3 were just completely unknown to me, all literary. Don’t know a thing about Ellison’s book, Dicken’s setting for a Tale of Two Cities, or To Kill a Mockingbird.

But I am a junior in college, a history major. To be fair though, I didn’t learn ANY of the stuff above in college- that’s all been byzantine history or gender history or other indepth stuff, and I havent done any american history.
I could feel myself pulling these facts from the readings I did in 8th grade with one teacher, and 11th grade with another.

By: Stephanie O

Stephanie O — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:50:04 +0000

I got 30 right, just barely an A everyone I got wrong was one I had to guess on, but the rest seemed easy

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:14:25 +0000

Freshman in college, got one wrong.

By: Amy Gordon

Amy Gordon — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 04:12:53 +0000

6 wrong… but I am still in school

By: annie

annie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:10:46 +0000

sorry I got 4 wrong and guessed on another.

By: Willy Franzen

Willy Franzen — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:46:40 +0000

I got one wrong, but had to guess on a couple.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:56:55 +0000

Whew!- The good news is I got 100. The bad news is I’m almost sixty and the product of the educational system that existed half a century ago- mean Latin teachers and lots of memorization.