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The political knowledge of US voters in the 1988 & 1992 elections was examined through analysis of data from the National Election Studies. Although US voters were more active in the 1992 than in the 1988 election & believed themselves to be much better informed, analysis reveals that the public was only slightly better informed in 1992 & that the process of obtaining political information in 1988 & 1992 was substantially the same. In both years, acquisition of political information was predicted by cognitive ability, opportunity, & motivation. The intractability of political ignorance in mass publics is discussed. 2 Tables, 1 Appendix, 28 References. Adapted from the source document.

A review essay on books by: Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987); E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987); Diane Ravitch & Chester E. Finn, Jr., What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature (New York: Harper & Row, 1987); & Lynne V. Cheney, American Memory: A Report on the Humanities in the Nation's Public Schools (Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987 [see listings in IRPS No. 51]). All these works see deficiencies in the way US students are taught about their culture, & recommend some variant of the "great books" curriculum. Hirsch's work includes a list of terms that every literate person should know, which is criticized here as irrelevant to the goals of educational reform. Ravitch & Finn report the poor results of a test administered in 1986 to 7,800 high school juniors, providing the basis of calls for educational reforms. Cheney's pamphlet criticizes the emphasis in education on process over content, on the formalized teaching of skills rather than transmission of cultural content. Bloom's book is a popular one that glosses over many complex ideas, offering sustained attacks on the relativism & historicism that he claims pervade academia & society. Bloom's conception of the great books curriculum is flawed by being ethnocentric, parochial, & antiphilosophical. He offers a closed system of methodological gnosticism rather than open philosophical inquiry. It is suggested that the reason for declining appreciation of cultural heritage is its tangentiality to most universities' missions & to the US reward system generally. A. Waters

In the interest of contributing to the improvement of the quality and equity of higher education, this report points out the impacts of COVID-19 on higher education. While it focuses primarily on the Latin American and Caribbean region, some of the strategies and research findings addressed apply also to other regions. The analyses and recommendations included are primarily intended for policy makers at both the systemic and institutional level, for whom the content of this report should provide valuable information for decision-making in the short, medium and long term. ; UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC)

"Reprinted and partially revised 1973". ; Replaces earlier publications issued by the U.S. Dept. of the Army under the same title. ; Includes index. ; Bibliography: p. [649]-679. ; Mode of access: Internet.

"Except for Chapters 27 and 28, which have been considerably revised, this edition is essentially a reprint of the 1969 version. ; Bibliography: p. [649]-679. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Authors provide an update on four key challenges that U.S. school districts face today — school staffing, budgeting, the politicization of schooling, and academic recovery efforts — using data from the fall 2023 American School District Panel survey.