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...electronic encyclopedia is exactly the same as the printed version of the Academic American, published by Grolier Inc., which consists of 21 volumes, 28,000 articles and 9 million words. By comparison, the older and more respected Encyclopaedia Britannica has 30 volumes and 43 million words, while the World Book has 22 volumes and roughly 10 million words. Computerization, though, makes it relatively easy to update the Academic American, and a new version comes out every six months. An updated edition of the Britannica is published only annually, and the World Book is also modified once a year...
...relying too much on it. I wish they would transfer their interest to books." Observes Kenneth Kister, editor of the Encyclopedia Buying Guide: "Academic American was created under extreme deadline pressure. It's good, but not as well written as World Book or as comprehensive as the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...revving up began on ABC's highly successful This Week with David Brinkley, where Sam Donaldson is teamed with Columnist George F. Will, whom Brinkley describes as "an Encyclopaedia Britannica on wheels." Side by side, they take turns at boring in on a guest. Only a politician with aplomb and a fast tongue can escape being overwhelmed by this pair, even though, as the old saying goes, a fool can ask ten questions while a wise man answers one. Sometimes an affable Brinkley eases up their questioning: "We've become aware of very bad public reaction...
...master of the Socratic method, he has taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago. He is chairman of the board of editors for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the author of 30 books. His newest: How to Speak / How to Listen. With Educator Robert Maynard Hutchins, he compiled the Great Books of the Western World, 54 volumes of the world's classics. Last year he published The Paideia Proposal, a manifesto to reform U.S. primary and secondary education by instituting a standard and much more demanding curriculum. When he led the procession to Columbia College's commencement...
ONLY TWO RESPONSES have shaken free of the admissions mindset: a painstaking program of "expected learning outcomes" developed by schools and colleges through the College Board, and a self-styled "educational manifesto" by the Paideta Group, master-minded by philosopher and Encyclopedia Britannica scholar Mortimer Adler. Neither, though, is likely to get at the roots of the decline of high-school preparation--college or otherwise...