[Lmresearch] New Fordam Institute report--Beyond the Basics: Achieving a Liberal Education for All Children

[Russell W. Rumberger]

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           Beyond the Basics: Achieving a Liberal Education for All Children

            America's true competitive edge in a globalizing economy is not its technical prowess but its creativity, its imagination, its inventiveness. And those attributes are best inculcated not by skill-drill or STEM-centered curricula but through liberal arts and sciences, liberally defined. Thus argues a new Fordham volume, edited by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Diane Ravitch, which also explores what policymakers and educators can to do sustain liberal learning and sketches an unlovely future if we fail.

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