A concerning fact to ponder over President’s Day weekend: Only 45 percent of Utah adults can earn a passing grade on history questions from the U.S. citizenship test.
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation released those findings on Friday, based on a poll of 41,000 adults nationwide.
Results show that “Americans don’t possess the history knowledge they need to be informed and engaged citizens,” said Arthur Levine, president of the Princton, N.J.-based foundation that supports leadership development through education.
The foundation said only 5 percent of Utahns polled earned a letter grade of A for scoring between 90 and 100; 10 percent earned a B for scores of 80-89; 17 percent earned a C for 70-79; and 13 percent gained a D for 60-69.