Liberal Arts

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College & Workforce Readiness Opinion Are Advanced Placement Courses Diminishing Liberal Arts Education?
AP preparation is overrated and may diminish, rather than advance, the deeper objectives of a liberal arts education, says UCLA senior lecturer Paul Von Blum.
Paul Von Blum, August 29, 2008
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Federal New Group Formed to Promote Liberal Arts Curriculum
American high schoolers earned a D for their knowledge of history and literature on a recent survey.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, February 27, 2008
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Education 'Common Core' Seeks to Rescue Liberal Arts
The debate over whether NCLB has narrowed schools' curricula has a new player—a group called Common Core.
February 26, 2008
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Assessment Principals' Poll Shows Erosion Of Liberal Arts Curriculum
A comprehensive curriculum is moving out of reach for more of the nation's pupils as elementary schools turn greater attention to the subjects states are required to test under the No Child Left Behind Act, warns a new report.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, March 17, 2004
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Curriculum Honor Societies Form Alliance To Bolster Liberal Arts Education
Three prominent academic-honor societies for high school and college students are banding together to improve liberal arts education and to counter what the organizations' leaders say is a growing public perception that technology-centered skills are of more value than studies in the traditional disciplines.
Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, May 2, 2001
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Education Mix of Liberal Arts, Pedagogy Is Urged for Teachers
The inadequacies of courses that combine pedagogy and the liberal arts and sciences are the "weakest link" in teacher-training programs, according to the first report to emerge from an unusual collaboration between education schools and other college departments.
Debra Viadero, December 13, 1989
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Education Liberal-Arts Collaboration Seen 'Very Long Process'
Both liberal-arts professors and teacher educators are being pressured to make reforms in what and how they teach. But getting the two groups to collaborate has been an uphill battle, participants said here at the Holmes Group's third annual meeting.
Lynn Olson, February 8, 1989
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Education Opinion Martin Luther King and the Liberal Arts
In his landmark "Letter From Birmingham Jail," the man whose memory we honor today, Martin Luther King, distinguished between a just and an unjust law.
William J. Bennett, January 22, 1986
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Education Decline of Liberal Arts Lamented at Counselors' Meeting
Boston--Concern over a general decline in liberal-arts education marked several keynote addresses delivered here last week at the 40th annual meeting of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors.
Susan G. Foster, October 10, 1984
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Education U. of Tennessee Starts Institute To Encourage Liberal-Arts Study
In an effort to enhance the quality of its applicants and the quality of education in the region it serves, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville is establishing an institute that will advance liberal-arts programs in Appalachian high schools.

The James R. Stokely Institute, supported by a $280,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is a three-year program that will develop summer seminars for high-school teachers and students from 34 counties in East Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia.

December 22, 1982
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Education N.J. Moves To Upgrade Admissions Standards, Stress Liberal Arts
New Jersey has joined the growing number of states that have moved to tighten their undergraduate teacher-preparation standards. The state's board of education recently endorsed tougher admissions and graduation requirements for teacher-training programs. The standards were passed in February by the state's higher-education board.

Liberal Arts Emphasis

March 24, 1982
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