Joseph Adelson, Carl Dolce, Denis Doyle, Gilbert Sewall, and Donald Stedman discuss the condition of secondary education in the United States. Among the topics are developing analytical and critical thinking skills, general education, and vocation, technical, and professional education.
At the time of this interview, Adelson, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1978-79), was professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. Dolce was dean of the School of Education at North Carolina State University. Doyle was the education policies studies director at the American Enterprise Institute. Sewall, a Fellow at the Center (1981-82), was the former education editor of Newsweek. Stedman was the associate vice-president for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
