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Education / History Test Results #701423

NBC Evening News for Thursday, May 09, 2002
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.

(Washington: Robert Hager) Education Department report on the poor performance of American students on history tests examined; examples of test questions given. [Education Secretary Rod PAIGE - says over half of all high school seniors did not even know answers to basic history questions.] [Indiana University education professor John PATRICK - says the extremely low scores of seniors are "awful."] [New York University historian Diane RAVITCH - says the results are shocking.]

Reporter(s):
Brokaw, Tom;
Hager, Robert
Duration:
00:02:30

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