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...month after leaving his cabinet post, former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett hasn't given up on his crusade to reform higher education...
Along with University of Chicago professor and best-selling author Allan Bloom, Bennett is laying plans to establish a summer institute aimed at reforming college curricula and exposing undergraduates to the "great books...
...Cameron told me to call John Bennett the next day so that I could finally go out to the island, and he recommended some people that I should talk to. After the initial jabs at Harvard boys, they were all extremely friendly or helpful. Leaving them to their conversation and work on the pier, I went to talk to the people...
...phone, John Bennett agreed to hold the early morning boat till I could arrive, and I made sure this time to bring someone else along. The sky was grey, but, except for a few stipples of rain, the water was calm. Bennett and some friends were standing by the boat reminiscing about early school-days, when English was still a second language, and the Swedes were second-class citizens...
...number of education experts--including former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett--say that schools increasingly believe that higher price tags are seen as a measure of selectivity. Officials at Mount Holyoke College, which has risen into the ranks of the country's most expensive colleges, say universities are raising tuition to seem more desirable to students. At the South Hadley, Mass. school, applications shot up as tuition rose in past years...