Introduction to a Series >>>>> Subject Area Reference Documents for Teachers and Students in the Minneapolis Public Schools

The articles that follow this introduction are adapted from my book, >Foundations of an Excellent Liberal Arts Education< , a 15-chapter tome that constitutes a complete liberal arts education.   I started writing this book because I would forever be seething as I gave ad hoc lectures to my students in the New Salem Educational Initiative to give them information on all manner of subjects about which they had learned nothing (at any level, preK through Grade 12) in the Minneapolis Public Schools.  

So I decided to write a book that would give my students the broad, multi-subject education that they need to be culturally enriched, civically prepared, professionally satisfied citizens---  and to offer the book, too, to the general public, because very few people in our society are well-educated.  Those we deem well-educated are in fact specialists who neither in their preK through 12 years nor at any level in college or university experiences received, sought, or acquired a multi-subject education.  

Thus do we witness the abysmally ignorant society that we have in the United States today, at the mercy of false claims and pseudo-information that very few are in a position to evaluate.  

I have now adapted these chapters as reference works for teachers and students at the Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS), where Interim Superintendent Rochelle Cox is vigorously pursuing efforts to provide knowledge-intensive, skill-replete education that could make MPS a model for other locally centralized school districts throughout the nation.