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- Title
Repairing the Public-Private Split: Excellence, Character, and Civic Virtue.
- Authors
Nash, Robert J.; Griffin, Robert S.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the importance of standards of academic excellence in the U.S. Currently, a group of writers on schooling in America advocates the importance of education for excellence and character. While throughout the history of American schooling theorists have advocated the need for such basics as generalized education, high standards of academic excellence, and a virtuous citizenry, today the advocacy is more insistent, and more cogent, than in the past, at least at the conceptual and educational-policy levels. Excellence advocates stress a drastic paring down of schooling's traditional functions and purposes to the teaching of a common core of subjects--writing, science, mathematics, the liberal arts, and even computer literacy--as a necessary step toward fostering the skills of analysis, historical understanding, and critical reasoning. While there are many versions of excellence education--some, in contrast to those just characterized, emphasize mastery learning, or the raising of test scores, or the development of what are called effective schools--referring to that group of writers who believe that excellence in education denotes the cultivation of mind, imagination, and intellect through a lengthy and probing study within the liberal arts tradition of the best ideas and creations the Western world has yet produced.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL standards; LEARNING; EDUCATION benchmarking; EXCELLENCE; UNITED States education system
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1987, Vol 88, Issue 4, p549
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818708800407