Much Left to Learn About Civil Rights
Education about the Civil Rights Movement is "dismal," according a new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, NPR reports.
Alabama, New York and Florida received the only "A" grades, while 35 states were branded with an "F." On the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as "the Nation's Report Card," only 2 percent of high school seniors could identify the relevance of Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision which determined separate school facilities for black and white children were inherently unequal.
That students had little or no knowledge of such a landmark event in the history of American education raises some interesting questions. Is it that they haven't been taught about it? Or is it so far removed from their own