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Who Will Educate the Educators?


Article # : 10516 

Section : BOOK WORLD
Issue Date : 2 / 1986  2,216 Words
Author : George C.S. Benson and John West, Jr.
George C.S. Benson is founding president of Claremont McKenna College, where he is now Director of the Henry Salvatori Center. From 1967 to 1972, he was deputy assistant secretary of defense for educational affairs. John West, Jr., editor of the Washington Spectator, was a 1985 Publius Fellow.

       THE TROUBLED CRUSADE
       American Education 1945-1980
       Diane Ravitch
       New York: Basic Books, 1983
       xiii + 384 pp., $19.95 (cloth), $8.95 (paper)
       
       THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE
       Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time
       Diane Ravitch
       New York: Basic Books, 1985
       ix + 137 pp., $19.95
       
       CHALLENGE TO AMERICAN SCHOOLS
       The Case for Standards and Values
       Edited by John H. Bunzel
       New York: Oxford University Press, 1985
       viii + 248 pp., $19.95
       
        It is strange how a nation as firmly rooted in fundamental ideas of ethics, political theory, and liberal education as America could have banished those fundamental values from its public schools only a century and a quarter after the Founding.
       
        Yet that is what happened, according to educator Diane Ravitch.
       
        Ravitch, a professor of history and education at Columbia University, is the author of nearly 150 articles and reviews, as well as two previous books. In The ... (1992 of 13417 Characters)
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