May 18, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute
Liberal Arts Education for a Global Society, by Carol M. Barker, summarizes a November 1999 meeting held by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to examine ways to strengthen liberal-arts education in America. Ms. Barker, a senior associate at Carnegie, writes that a gap exists between what institutions offer and what students and the public expect. Meeting participants, including educators and officials of non-profit groups that focus on education issues, expressed concern that “learning for the sake of learning may not be compelling when students and families face large commitments of time and money.” The participants identified the greatest need for a liberal-arts background among elementary and secondary schoolteachers, who too often lack the skills needed to bridge arts and sciences and professional disciplines, according to the meeting’s participants.
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