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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...
Equal quantity of schooling for all students, Adler argues, has only half fulfilled "the democratic promise of equal educational opportunity"; the deeper commitment should be for equal quality for everyone. The present multitrack system, he maintains, must therefore be completely reformed. In The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (Macmillan; $2.95), published this week, he proposes a sweeping, nationwide, twelve-year, single-track academic program with virtually no electives and no vocational training. The ringing words of the late Robert Maynard Hutchins are Adler's anthem: "The best education for the best is the best education...
Pines, a former associate editor of TIME and current vice president of the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., presents an academic analysis of these loosely connected movements, an anecdotal account of their struggles and a manifesto for furthering their goals. His "journey through traditionalist America" covers the social and family issues of those who oppose the ERA and busing, the economic worries of those who are fighting for supply-side tax cuts and deregulation of industry, and the foreign policy concerns of those who favor a tougher stand against Soviet adventurism. "Many of the sinews binding the movement...
...worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust." So begins an early (1643) manifesto of Harvard's aims; in those days, it was a rare graduate indeed who did not take to the pulpit once his sheepskin was secured...
...show of force took place at a meeting of 800 delegates, who had gathered to plan a massive anti-nuclear demonstration to coincide with President Reagan's visit to Bonn on June 10. Representatives of the Greens, a coalition of West German environmental groups, demanded that the manifesto outlining the demonstration's purpose also criticize the arms buildup in the Soviet Union and not concentrate solely on the U.S. But the Greens were repeatedly shouted down by a loud contingent of Communists and sympathizers. Complained exiled East German Economist Rudolf Bahro, a leading member of the Greens, before...