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Civics failure

| May 20, 2011 6:00 AM

"Pathetic." That's what former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor called the results of the civics part of a test given last year to thousands of fourth, eighth, and 12th-grade students in public and private schools across the country. American Bar Association President Stephen Zack said the results are "a wake-up call we cannot ignore."

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