College Students Know Nothing About Ronald Reagan

Can College Students Recall Reagan? (CNS News)

This week marked the 10th anniversary of the death of President Ronald Reagan.  

As it so happens, I had some video on hand from a project I had been doing for a few months where I went to two college campuses--George Mason University and American University--and asked students the most basic question about Ronald Reagan that I could think of.

The good news is that unlike some of my other college quizzes, a few students knew the answer to this one. I guess that's something.  Still, there was a whole lot of hesitation and very little visible embarrassment when I told them how wrong they were.The fact that so many of them didn't even seem to care how ignorant they were is what worries me the most.