Gary Palmer: The Shaping of the American mind, a new report from ISI

  In the United States, there is tremendous emphasis placed on education, and rightly so. To remain globally competitive, it is essential that we graduate students well-educated in core subjects such as reading and mathematics.

  But are we failing to educate in other areas? As the latest report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) indicates, when it comes to teaching fundamentals that should unite us and strengthen us in our roles as citizens we have failed. ISI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization that was founded in 1953 to advance a better understanding of the economic, political, and ethical values that sustain a free and humane society.