Mar 042009
Citing the dismal statistic, “Only one-third of Americans can name the three branches of government, but two-thirds can name a judge on American Idol,” Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is leading the development of an online interactive civic education project: Our Courts. The site is up and already has resources for middle school students and teachers. Games are in development and are scheduled to be available later this year.
For the record:
- executive
- legislative
- judicial
- Simon
- Paula
- some other guy
I have never been a fan of the show….
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Tim,
It’s Randy Jackson.
If it counts, I did know the other three too.
I’m a pretty cool statistic sometimes.
–snow
kinda sad isn’t it?
Really sad. And interesting that she places some of the blame on No Child Left Behind. Funding only goes to what gets tested — that’s generally reading, writing, math, and science. ~Tim
Ah, yes, but do you know the fifty states in alphabetical order? That really gets a MENSA meeting off to an erotic start.
If I know how to look it up, why should I have to remember it? [And the Mensans I know would only get off if you could name the states in reverse-alphabetical order.] ~Tim
Regarding the reverse alpha order: I can do that, too.
Har to the har har.
Remind me to show you a poem about Barbie at some point.
I’m guilty of American Idol
For the record.. Geography is my weakness…