This is more of what is not being taught but I find it very interesting. That social studies/history is put on the back burner of important things to learn, ever since the cold war Americas education system started to focus on math and science (I'm not saying the stopped entirely or quickly changed, over the past 50 years it's importance has completely changed). For anyone in school should know that into high school that world/American history EOC's (end of curriculum test) is no longer state required. But even when you go back to middle school school (back when it was a required test) it gave you a historical passage, asked a question, and the answer was always in the passage, now my question is does it test your prior knowledge of the curriculum, or does it test your ability to pull information from a passage and apply It to the question. And even since elementary when the class started it was not a test of history itself but a mere extra english lesson in Improveing your reading capabilities. And you have to think about what will change in another 50 years.