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Our children and our country : improving America's schools and affirming the common culture

Title: Our children and our country : improving America's schools and affirming the common culture / William J. Bennett.
Author: Bennett, William J. (William John), 1943-
Publication: New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1988.

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Description

238 pages; 24 cm

Summary

24 speeches.

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Contents

Part One: What Works in Education -- 1. The Three C's -- 2. First Lessons: American Elementary Education -- 3. Educating Disadvantaged Children -- Part Two: Let Us Now Praise -- 4. Let Us Not Praise Good Schools -- 5. Let Us Now Praise Good Teachers -- 6. Heroes of the Republic -- Part Three: The Nurture and Protection of Our Children -- 7. The Family as Teacher -- 8. Public Education and Moral Education -- 9. Moral Literacy and the Formation of Character -- 10. Drug Use Among Our Children -- 11. Sex and the Education of Our Children -- 12. AIDS: Education and Public Policy
Part Four: Higher Education: Promise and Reality -- 13. Martin Luther King and the Liberal Arts -- 14. A Matter of Quality -- 15. The Rhetoric and Reality of Higher Education -- Part Five: Our Common Culture -- 16. The Young James Madison -- 17. A Plea for History -- 18. Religious Belief and the Constitutional Order -- 19. In Defense of Our Common Language -- Part Six: In Defense of the West -- 20. Why Western Civilization? -- 21. America, the World, and Our Schools -- 22. Education for Democracy -- Part Seven: The Reagan years and Beyond -- 23. Prospects for Education Reform -- 24. The Future of American Conservatism.

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88017498

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Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library