civics: negative learning in higher education

When the Intercollegiate Studies Institute assessed the civic literacy of 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 colleges and universities in 2006 -- asking about American history and constitutionalism, mainly -- the average senior received a failing grade of 54%. Many schools even demonstrated "negative learning," with seniors performing worse than freshmen.

from Don't Know Much About History by David Feith in the WSJ