Lowest-Common-Denominator Education

Reform in the General Education Movement:

“…89 General education, like K-12 schooling, had the opportunity to increase democratic equality, function as a tool of social efficiency, and promote social mobility. 91 To negotiate this tension and assuage these fears, the Basic College was very much attuned to meritocracy and actively built these practices into its administrative and curricular structures. What united most proponents of general education, however, was an anxiety that somehow the extension of college access was diluting tradition and excellence.…”