The Fate of Liberal Arts in Today's Schools and Colleges

William Hayes has been a high school social studies teacher, assistant principal, high school principal, superintendent of schools, adjunct professor, associate professor, and chairman of the Teacher Education Division at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY. He is the father of three children and the grandfather of two.

INTRODUCTION
1.Origins of the Idea
2.Liberal Arts in the Schools and Colleges in Early America
3.The First Public Schools in America
4.The Establishment of Vocational Schools
5.The Community College
6.The Progressive Education Movement
7.History Becomes the Social Studies
8.Philosophy as a Component of a Liberal Arts Education
9.Latin and Other Foreign Languages in the Liberal Arts Tradition
10.The Future of the Arts in Our Schools and Colleges
11.The Impact of Technology on the Liberal Arts
12.C.P. Snow and the “Two Cultures Debate”
13.School Choice and the Liberal Arts
14.The Growing Impact of the Federal Government
15.The Common Core Curriculum
16.Poverty and the Availability of an Equal Educational Opportunity
17.A Liberal Arts Education for Special Education and Gifted and Talented Students
18.The Impact of Other Programs
19.The Liberal Arts in Our Colleges
20.The Future of the Liberal Arts