Where Is America? Only One Quarter of U.S. Students Are Proficient in Geography

Add this to the list of subjects students in the U.S. are not so good at. First science and math, now geography. A report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress found only about one-fourth of American students are proficient in geography. Twenty-one percent of fourth grade students, 27% of eighth graders and just 20%

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Where Is America? Only One Quarter of U.S. Students Are Proficient in Geography

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