Knowledge

57: Percentage of high school students who didn’t have a passing knowledge of history

40: Percentage of who didn’t know who America’s World War II allies were

45: Percentage of college students who didn’t know Abraham Lincoln was president during the Civil War

30: Percentage of college students who could name religion as a freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment

21: Percentage of college administrators who could

Source: National Endowment for the Humanities, recent surveys