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Recently, historian Joel Kotkin argued in Quillette magazine that 

History has moved to the front line of social conflict, but rarely has it been so poorly understood and sketchily taught. After decades of declining interest, only 13 percent of eighth graders achieve proficiency in the subject today. … When I show my students a picture of Lenin, barely one-in-ten of them recognize it. 

 Students saturated by information technology have less encouragement to study

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