Against mediocrity : the humanities in America's high schools / edited by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Diane Ravitch, Robert T. Fancher ; with a foreword by William Bennett.
"A project of the Educational Excellence Network of Vanderbilt University's Institute for Public Policy Studies." Bibliography: p. 270-273.
Contents:
Foreword / William J. Bennett -- Introduction / Chester E. Finn, Diane Ravitch, and Robert T. Fancher -- The uses of humanistic schooling / Harry S. Broudy -- Language, reasoning, and the humanities / Leon Botstein -- English teaching and humane culture / Robert T. Fancher -- Foreign languages and humane learning / Carlos R. Hortas -- Improving high school history teaching / Clair W. Keller -- Teaching the humanities : the ideal within the real / Scott Colley -- The diminished past : conditions and ideals in the social studies / Gilbert T. Sewall -- On a background for teachers / Peter R. Pouncey -- The intellectual lives of teachers / Edwin J. Delattre -- Teacher education and the predicaments of reform / Gary Sykes -- Teachers and professionalism / Jon Moline -- The state's responsibility for teacher quality / John T. Casteen -- Epilogue : a school administrator's view / Peter R. Greer -- Conclusions and recommendations : high expectations and disciplined effort / Chester E. Finn and Diane Ravitch.
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