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It is familiar news, but still disturbing: most American high school students ap- pear to know little about U.S. history and less about world history. In a 1988 national test, only a minority of seniors showed even a general sense of the chronology of events in America's past or were familiar with the Dec- laration of Independence and other funda- mental texts. The National Standards for United States History and the National Stan- dards for World History, unveiled...