Tag Archives: Public education
Innovative Learning
Benno Schmidt, Jr., former president of Yale University, discusses the Edison Project, a private educational initiative. At the time of this interview, Schmidt was a Trustee of the National Humanities Center. In the second segment [19:00] Richard Schramm, director of … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Schmidt, Benno C., Schramm, Richard
Tagged Edison Project, Education -- U.S., Education policy -- U.S., Education standards -- U.S., Public education, teaching
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Future Stakes, Part 4: American Memory
Lynne Cheney and Charles Blitzer discuss the need for teaching American history and heritage in the 1980s, as well as how to think about public issues and cultural knowledge. At the time of this interview, Cheney was chairman of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blitzer, Charles, Cheney, Lynne V., Episodes
Tagged Education -- U.S., Public education, Teachers and teaching
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Cultural Literacy
Are Americans becoming culturally illiterate? Writing in the Spring 1983 issue of American Scholar and in conversation here, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues for the desirability of shared, canonical knowledge as the basis for literacy in the United States. Without knowledge … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald)
Tagged Humanities, Public education
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Ethics and Moral Education
Ethics at both individual and social levels in the United States is the focus of renewed attention in business and the professions, education, government, and churches. Edmund Pincoffs outlines social, historical, and technological reasons for this new interest, and he … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Pincoffs, Edmund
Tagged Ethics, Morals, Public education
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