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IDEOLOGICAL DISSONANCE

D

uring the academic year 2006-7, the Intercollegiate Studies
Institute, which sponsors Modern Age, administered a sixtyquestion multiple-choice examination on American history and
civic institutions to more than 28,000 freshmen and seniors at
more than eighty colleges and universities. The overall results
were abysmal; even more telling, at the vast majority of institutions, the seniors did no better than the freshmen, and not infrequently a bit worse.
In 2008 ISI administered a similar examination to 2,508 adults:
high school graduates averaged a score of only 44 percent-a
score upon which college graduates only barely improved at a
figure of 57 percent. In 2010 an ISI survey delivered more bad news
about what now passes for a college education: while acquiring
a degree fails to provide much familiarity with America's history
or institutions, it succeeds admirably in making degree holders
more liberal or progressive in their political views. By contrast,
those who are able to demonstrate more factual civic knowledge
tend to prize our constitutional traditions.
What is more, a 2011 study by ISI shows that civic knowledge
of the kind not acquired by attending college has positive practical consequences. Although higher education has no significant
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