Warren Young Explorers School’s founding board of directors formally introduced their plans to develop a charter school in Warren County during the first of three community interest meetings on Feb.
Why Schools Fail: Reclaiming the Moral Dimension in Education heritage.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heritage.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
editorial@newsandsentinel.com
A “Nation At Risk,” the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, stated that the decline in educational performances is the result of disturbing inadequacies in the way the educational process is conducted.
The report indicated that these inadequacies are causing the loss of markets, intellectual strengths and spiritual strengths.
Lastly, the report offered five solutions: modify the school curriculum, raise educational expectations, make better use of time, improve the teaching profession and create the proper learning environment.
Mortimer J. Adler, and the Paideia Group have written three books to indicate how these five solutions might be implemented: “The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto,” “The Paideia Program: An Educational Syllabus” and “Paideia Problems and Possibilities.”