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	Maeve Maddox BellaOnline's School Reform Editor

Making money from School Reform [offsite link]
Presented as “an act of philanthropy,” the charter school movement is opening the door to profiteering.

The Foreign Language Numbers Game [offsite link]
Maeve Maddox: In order to keep their classrooms filled, more and more colleges are discontinuing their language courses because “not enough students want them.” Consumerism should not dictate educational standards. Instead of dumbing down the college curriculum and making the United States more insular, pre-college instruction should make foreign language a priority from the early grades.

What is Liberal Arts Education and Who Needs It?
The term Liberal Arts refers to the academic subjects that include language, literature, science, math, and history. In the past, an acquaintance with all these subjects was considered the mark of an educated person. Today's idea of "an educated person" seems to have changed.

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