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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...
...institutions offered a good, if sometimes narrow, education to children of the Catholic ghetto, few of whom broke away to the wider world of Yale or Radcliffe. Not so today. Following the window-opening influence of the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, many Catholic schools broadened their curricula, admitted more non-Catholic students, turned control of their boards -- and sometimes the president's office -- over to laymen and enforced rigorous standards of academic research...
Bennett then went on to alienate the higher education community even further by denouncing tuition hikes and college curricula and calling on the nation's schools to assume a greater share of the student aid burden. He continually attacked students for not paying back their federal loans and for using drugs, and he criticized their schools for allowing the classics of Western civilzation to disappear from their curricula...
Indeed, years from now, historians may view Bennett as movement conservatives now do, namely as a reformist crusader battling on behalf of middle-income families against the education community, working to reform curricula, eliminate drug abuse on campus, and halt rapidly rising college costs...
NSEA and CAST officials says they are involved in a wide range of activities, from developing computer equipment and other technology to fit each individual's special day-to-day needs, to helping to create curricula and learning programs for such students. Rose says that equipment needs to be specially adapted for each individual, and that there are no standard instruments to recommend...