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| The Lost Tools of Learning | Nine Lies About School Choice: Answering the Critics | |||
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The modern revival of Classical education was sparked by this 1947 speech
at Oxford by Dorothy L. Sayers. It was printed in essay form as The
Lost Tools of Learning . For those interested in classical education,
it is "must" reading, and a second reading will be equally valuable. The
section headings and emphasis are added. |
Thirteen years after publishing the first "Nine Lies," CER releases this revised version. Included are responses to school choice opponents' claims against school choice--such as the claim that choice programs take only the "cream" (or best students) from public schools or that choice programs violate constitutional provisions against the use of public dollars for religious purposes. | |||
| A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States | Achievement in Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States: Understanding the Differences | |||
| This study compares the reading and mathematics proficiency of charter school students in the United States to that of their fellow students in neighboring public schools. The charter schools are compared to the schools that their students would most likely otherwise attend: the nearest regular public school and the nearest regular public school with a similar racial composition. The results show 4 and 2 percent more proficiency for charter students respectively in reading and math in the first case and 5 and 3 percent in the second case. | Harvard scholar Caroline Hoxby's latest research on charter schools finds very encouraging news for students and parents. Her report included data from nearly 99 percent of elementary charter school students and found that when compared to peers at the traditional public school that charter students would have been most likely to attend, charter students are 5.2 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3.2 percent more likely to be proficient in math on state tests. | |||
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Classical Education, The Movement Sweeping America By Gene Edward Veith, Jr., and Andrew Kern |
The Paideia Proposal By Mortimer J. Adler |
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Norms & Nobility, A Treatise on Education By David V. Hicks |
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education By James S. Taylor |
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The Knowledge Deficit By E.D. Hirsch, JR. |
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know By E.D. Hirsch, JR. |
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The Well-Trained Mind By Susan Wise Bauer & Jessie Wise |
Liberty and Learning: The Evolution of American Education By Larry P. Arnn |
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Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning By Jacques Barzun |
The Devil Knows Latin: Why America Needs the Classical Tradition by E. Christian Kopff |
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