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What’s Worth Learning? addresses the central question of general education. For learners facing a complex, unpredictable, and dangerous future, it asks and answers the question: What knowledge is absolutely essential for every learner?
In simple, jargon-free language, the book explains why the “core curriculum” in near-universal use in America’s classrooms was poor when it was adopted in 1893 and why it grows more dysfunctional with each passing year. It then shows how, without changes in staffing, budgets, or bureaucratic boundaries, knowledge can be organized to both radically improve learner intellectual performance and significantly decrease the cost of a general education.

Audio Book: Marion Brady, What's Worth Learning, Narrated by Diane Havens

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THE ROY JENKINS MEMORIAL MEETING

As we approach the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, two writers encourage us to remember that, despite fighting each other in two terrible wars, Britain and Germany share centuries of deep friendship. Philip Oltermann, deputy editor on the Guardian comment desk, is the author of Keeping Up with the Germans, an interweaving of memoir and history, published earlier this year to outstanding reviews. The biographer Miranda Seymour's forthcoming publication 'Noble Endeavours' is a moving exploration of 400 years of Anglo-German relationship and forgotten friendships, told through the stories of people at all levels of society, from kings to students. Chaired by John Jungclaussen.

John Jungclaussen, Philip Oltermann and Miranda Seymour on Anglo-German relations: October 2013

The Government's welfare reforms are starting to bite, but are they radical enough, given projected demographic changes, or do we need a complete rethink of our social values? With Rory Meakin, Professor Simon Szreter, Bill Davies, Jeff Miley and chaired by Gaby Hinsliff.

Rory Meakin is Head of Tax Policy at the TaxPayers' Alliance. He has contributed to projects on a variety of subjects from local government spending to an influential paper on simplifying taxes on income called Abolish National Insurance. Simon Szreter is Professor in History and Public Policy at Cambridge. He teaches modern British economic and social history since 1700. His main fields of research are demographic and social history, the history of empirical social science and the relationship between history and contemporary public policy issues. Jeff Miley is Lecturer of Political Sociology in the Department of Sociology at Cambridge. His research interests include nationalism, language politics, identity politics, immigration, religion and politics, regime types, and democratic theory.

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