To the Editor:
Michael Clune (“Degrees of Ignorance,” December 11) wants to save general education from the bite of AP credits, reduced requirements, and “faux interdisciplinarity.” I agree that pawning general education off onto high schools, unaccredited course providers, and others, or otherwise doing it on the cheap, abrogates our responsibility to educate full participants in civic and work life.
However, the vision of general education that Clune defends is hardly an inspiring one. As far as I can tell, his solution to the various attacks on general education is to double down on disconnected introductory survey courses that he describes as “freedom,” but which many students experience as fragmented and irrelevant — which helps to spark precisely the kinds of assaults that Clune is lamenting.
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