Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important hist…

Susan Orlean
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Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that. ✨ Google It by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 16, 2011.
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