Making a college education more purposeful
Can commuter schools, research universities and underresourced campuses provide the kind of developmental and transformational education we used to associate with small liberal arts colleges? In his latest posting on his School Reform and Classroom Practice blog, Larry Cuban, the dean of historians of American education, tells the story of a remarkable educational experiment. Between 1933 and 1941, some 300 universities and colleges agreed to waive admissions requirements for the graduates of 30 high schools, half public, half private, that adopted innovative curricula and pedagogies.
Source: insidehighered.com