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What do our 17-year-olds know? : a report on the first national assessment of history and literature

Title
What do our 17-year-olds know? : a report on the first national assessment of history and literature / Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn, Jr. ; foreword by Lynne V. Cheney.
Author
Ravitch, Diane.
Publication
New York : Harper & Row, ©1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Finn, Chester E., Jr., 1944-
  • Cheney, Lynne V.
Description
ix, 293 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
A report on the results of a test of 17-year-olds' knowledge of history and literature in the United States.
Alternative Title
What do our seventeen-year-olds know?
Subject
  • History > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
  • American literature > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
  • Literature > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
  • High schools > Curricula > United States
  • Education, Secondary > Curricula > United States
  • Education, Secondary
  • American literature > Study and teaching (Secondary)
  • High schools > Curricula
  • History > Study and teaching (Secondary)
  • Literature > Study and teaching (Secondary)
  • Geschichtsunterricht
  • High school
  • Leistungsbeurteilung
  • Literaturunterricht
  • United States > History > Study and teaching (Secondary) > United States
  • United States
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Origins of this assessment -- What they know -- Behind the scores -- A generation at risk.
ISBN
  • 0060158492
  • 9780060158491
  • 006091520X
  • 9780060915209
LCCN
87045432
OCLC
  • ocm16470179
  • 16470179
  • SCSB-9539737
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library