Report: 1 in 10 college grads say Judge Judy is a Supreme Court justice
Americans' civic knowledge continues to be abysmal, finds a new report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). "Survey after survey shows that recent college graduates are alarmingly ignorant of America’s history and heritage," the authors note, and federal civics testing has not improved the situation.
Among the more disheartening findings of this analysis:
- How do Americans amend the Constitution? More than half of college graduates didn’t know. Almost 60 percent of college graduates failed to identify correctly a requirement for ratifying a constitutional amendment.- We live in a dangerous world — but almost 40 percent of college graduates didn’t know that Congress has the power to declare war.- And 9.6 percent of college graduates marked that Judith Sheindlin — "Judge Judy" — was on the Supreme Court! [ACTA]
Worse yet, wrong answers spiked among younger college graduates, suggesting that the demise of older Americans may lead to even more dismal overall rates of civic competence.
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