February 29, 1988 (vol. 98, iss. 99) • Page Image 38
…E 3 AT O N Pop Quiz: What Do Students Know? L ast year a book called "What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?" presented the results of 262 questions asked of a group of 17-year-old high-school stu- dents nationwide. NEWSWEEK ON CAM- Pus tried a sampling of 15 of these ques- tions on the same college students we polled on politics last November (page 24). College students consistently out- performed the 17-year-olds, but not by all that much. 1. When ...…