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RESOURCES ON LIBERAL  ARTS EDUCATION

3/4/2013

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These are links to material that I find useful for understanding the situation of liberal arts education today.

Political attacks on liberal arts education:

Hunter Rawlings and Lillian Aoki in the Huffington Post, “  A  College Education is about More Than a First Job”  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hunter-r-rawlings-iii/college-education-value_b_2593826.html/ .

Media Treatments:   “New and Noteworthy” Newsletter” January 2013 http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/1109165/c3328410a6/520044277/76b428fcde/

The Spread of Liberal Arts Education Overseas:

Elizabeth Redden, “Liberal Arts go Dutch” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/02/08/netherlands-growth-liberal-arts-colleges-has-influenced-higher-ed-sector-whole

 --“The Liberal Arts, Abroad” http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/16/liberalarts

On “Useless” Knowledge:

Nicholas Jones “Liberal Arts, and the Advantages of Being Useless” http://www.academia.edu/2454947/Liberal_Arts_and_the_Advantages_of_Being_Uselesst

The Earliest Evidence for Liberal Education: http://www.wrobertconnor.com/earliest-evidence-for-liberal-education.html

High School Student Achievement in OECD  2009 PISA exams:

http://www.ed.gov/blog/2010/12/international-education-rankings-suggest-reform-can-lift-u-s/

Tabular form:

http://www.oecd.org/pisa/46643496.pdf

Adult “literacy”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States

 

Critical thinking  by field of study:

Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
http://www.ssrc.org/workspace/images/crm/new_publication_3/%7Bfcfb0e86-b346-e111-b2a8-001cc477ec84%7D.pdf
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