Beyond the basics
Subtitle: achieving a liberal education for all children
By: edited ... by Chester E. Finn, Jr., and Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Thomas B. Fordam Institute
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Education; Curricula; Humanistic Education; Curriculum change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-183).
Table of contents: title: Why liberal learning / Chester E. Finn, Jr., and Diane Ravitch; title: Pleasure, beauty, and wonder : the role of the arts in liberal education / Dana Gioria; title: What do they know of reading who only reading know? : bringing liberal arts into the wasteland of the "literacy block" / E.D. Hirsch, Jr.; title: W(h)ither liberal education? : a modest defense of humanistic schooling in the twenty-first century / David J. Ferrero; title: Testing, learning, and teaching : the effects of test-based accountability on student achievement and instructional time in core academic subjects / Martin West; title: Is a default curriculum in high school a good strategy for promoting the humanities? / Matthew Gandal, Michael Cohen, & John Kraman; title: Time in school : opportunity to learn / Kate Walsh; title: The case for broadening veteran teachers' education in the liberal arts and what we could do about it / Sandra Stotsky; title: Do we need strong liberal arts curricular materials? / Joan Baratz-Snowden; title: Preparing teachers to teach the liberal arts / David Steiner; title: Expanding access to liberal education in public schools : the promise and perils of charter schools and in-district choice / David J. Ferrero; title: Virtual education and the liberal arts / John Holdren and Bror Saxberg; title: Instructional time and curricular emphases : U.S. state policies in comparative perspective / Aaron Benavot; title: Comfortable with big ideas / John Backus; title: Excellence for its own sake / Matthew Bogdanos; title: Complacency and its consequences / Chester E. Finn, Jr., and Diane Ravitch.