“No College Student Left Behind”?

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(National Review Online) This column was written by Peter Wood.

Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings will kill off one of the most promising reforms in higher education of the last half century during the coming days. The funeral, I expect, will be sparsely attended; but I’ll be among the mourners.

In 1987 Allan Bloom’s book “The Closing of the American Mind” aroused national furor by describing — convincingly to millions of readers — what had gone wrong with American colleges and universities. Bloom depicted the university as awash in cultural relativism, emotionally shallow, robustly strong in the natural sciences but intellectually anemic in every other discipline, and careless about the core tradition of philosophical search for truth.

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