by Robert L. Fried, Ed.D., and Eli Kramer, Ph. D. Surrounded and supported by inspiring friends, The New American Baccalaureate Project is joining the movement to transform undergraduate higher education. Our eyes are on the needs of today’s youth, and also on the future of liberal education and of our democracy. We are a small … Read More
Month: August 2019
A Liberal Arts Education for Working-Class Americans May Be the Best Thing We Can Do for Our Democracy
by Robert L. Fried After graduating high school during the summer of 1959, I took the only job I could get, a minimum-wage ($1.25 per hour) worker in an electronics factory in Astoria, Queens. I was consigned to a basement shop making parts for small tape recorders, where I was the only white, middle-class employee. … Read More