Did You Know?

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Sept 25, 2000 | by John Elvin

* For the third year in a row, homeschooled students scored higher on the ACT college-entrance exam than did their traditionally educated peers. The ACT, second only to the SAT as a college entrance exam, assesses achievement in English, mathematics, reading and science as well as preparation for college-level studies (report in the Washington Times based on figures supplied by ACT Inc.).

* Sixty percent of American adults cannot name the president who ordered the dropping of the first atomic bomb (from the book Cultural Amnesia: America Future and the Crisis of Memory by Stephen Bertman).

* More than 75 percent of command law-enforcement personnel say Attorney General Janet Reno should have followed the advice of FBI Director Louis Freeh and authorized an investigation of Vice President Al Gore's fund-raising activities (National Association of Chiefs of Police survey).