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Education and Learning
William Bennett: Tough Talk on Teaching
Washington Post interview, 1983
The Trouble with Harvard
Esquire, 1981
A Report Card on American Education
THE SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time
by Diane Ravitch
Colossus On the Charles
THE HARVARD CENTURY: The Making of a University To a Nation
by Richard Norton Smith
In Our Schools We Trust
AMERICAN EDUCATION
:
THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE
by Lawrence A. Cremin
That is not a bad dog - that's a splendid dog
Vicki Hearne trains Bandit
Wellesley Remembered: Reminiscences of a Harvard Man
"Like the Algonquin Round Table or the Old New York Yankees"
Fifty years on, a 1944 graduate of Friends Seminary affectionately recalls six reasons for the school's success.