"...But as many college instructors were quick to discover...Most startling was the fact that only 18 percent of college instructors rated their first-year students as well-prepared in the area of “distinguishing among fact, opinion, and reasoned judgment.”
Such news is deeply concerning.
If today’s students are unable to discern between fact and opinion while still in school, then how will they be able to separate the truth from the propaganda which pours from the hydrant of information the American public is fed every day?
If Americans have little knowledge of basic facts, are we closer to an American dark age than we’d like to believe?"
If Americans have little knowledge of basic facts, are we closer to an American dark age than we’d like to believe?"

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