Are You Smarter Than An Eighth Grader (In 1912)?

Meera Dolasia
Sat, 05 Oct 2013 11:28:26 -0700

Given the advances in technology and learning methodologies, it is a natural assumption that modern-day US students have it harder than those that were educated in 1912. However, the recent discovery of an eighth grade test paper set by educators at Kentucky's Bullitt County School District a century ago, seems to indicate that things were not as easy as one would have thought!