What Are We Trying to Teach Our Children? Introduction BY NATHAN GLAZER, Consulting Editor THE KEY WORD in the question The New Leader has posed to the six writers whose articles follow is...
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Why Curriculum Doesn't Matter BY DAVID COHEN IT IS A LITTLE difficult to wnte about what schools ought to teach Or at least to write about it with anything but a sense of reserve Do we think...
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SelfConfidence in the Classroom BY JOSEPH LELYVELD FOR THREE weeks last year I went exploring the wilderness of the New York City school system m search of a single teacher and class whose...
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The Counterschool Approach BY BARBARA LEONDAR A LUSH educational undergrowth has possessed the North American continent over the last five years In each of the 50 states as well as m Mexico and...
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Reviving a Civic Sense BY OSCAR HANDLIN THE CIVICS course--for many people one of the more dismal memories of high school--has been a central subject in most systems of educa-tion, formal and...
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Can a Captive Audience Learn? BY MARTIN TROW BEHIND THE student rebellion against the universities and their forms of instruction?the requirements and lectures, the seminars and papers, the...
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Toward a College of Liberating Arts BY JESSE R PITTS I TEACH at a university founded in 1958 with the idea that the growing masses of students in post-Sputnik America needed the best instruction...
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