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McCoy, Brandon – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2021
This issue brief seeks to add to the discussion of educational pluralism by highlighting the history, features, and successes of the classical education model. The model is unique for its emphasis on building the student to be a scholar and an active citizen. Classical schools come in the form of private and charter schools, homeschooling, and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Classical Literature, Classical Languages, Liberal Arts
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Jarratt, Susan C. – College English, 2009
This article explored the archives of three preeminent southern Historically Black Colleges and Universities founded soon after the end of the war: Fisk, Atlanta, and Howard Universities. The author began by searching their founding documents and catalogues through the turn of the twentieth century. Curricular history provides an articulated…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Curriculum, Educational History, Periodicals
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Lawall, Gilbert – Classical Outlook, 1977
Negative and positive developments in the Latin curriculum in American public schools and developments in England are discussed. Declining enrollment trends, the emplementation of elementary school Latin classes in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, and diversification of the secondary school classics curriculum are some of the topics addressed.…
Descriptors: Classical Languages, Classical Literature, Curriculum Development, Declining Enrollment