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New Data: Students Ready to Learn, but Colleges Fail to Require Essential Classes
While general knowledge remains poor, ACTA’s arts and sciences survey shows that students have a strong appetite for learning.
At the 2016 ATHENA Roundtable, ACTA convened leading scholars to address the crisis in civic education and institutional accountability. ACTA also launched an expanded Fund for Academic Renewal to help donors support programs that uphold academic excellence. The What Will They Learn? report gained national attention, and our latest survey exposed alarming civic illiteracy among college graduates. ACTA concluded the conference by honoring Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Niall Ferguson with the 2016 Merrill Award.
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While general knowledge remains poor, ACTA’s arts and sciences survey shows that students have a strong appetite for learning.
John and Abigail Adams envisioned an America with a school in every neighborhood and a well-informed citizenry that was adept in languages, literature, and music; science, history, and religion. Their vision was practical until the ages recast it, little by little. Then, sometime between Joseph McCarthy and Joan Baez, the status quo of the educational […]
In this episode, ACTA Vice President of Policy Bradley Jackson talks with Jane Calvert, director of the John Dickinson Writings Project and a member of ACTA’s National Commission on American History and Civic Education.
Launched in 1995, we are the only organization that works with alumni, donors, trustees, and education leaders across the United States to support liberal arts education, uphold high academic standards, safeguard the free exchange of ideas on campus, and ensure that the next generation receives an intellectually rich, high-quality college education at an affordable price.
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