Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the humanities and the school / Benjamin Ladner
  • The decline of humanistic studies in the American school curriculum / Herbert M. Kliebard
  • The vision of the humanities for the young / Robert Coles
  • Cultural literacy : time for a new curriculum / John McDermott
  • The place of languages in the precollegiate humanities curriculum / Germaine Brèe
  • The teaching of history in American schools / Abraham Ascher
  • Values, ethnicity, social science research, and educational policy / James A. Banks
  • Can the humanities be taught in American public schools? / Elliot W. Eisner
  • The humanities and the summoning reader / Benjamin DeMott
  • The Paideia proposal and American education / Edwin J. Delattre
  • Precollegiate humanities : leadership and curriculum issues / Francis Roberts
  • Implementing successful humanities courses and programs / Benjamin Ladner.