University of Virginia - Center for the Liberal Arts
Web site: http://www.virginia.edu/cla/

The University of Virginia is not only one of the premiere institutions for the education of teachers, but, through the efforts of the Center for the Liberal Arts, it has also been a leader in content preparation for K-12 teachers.

Since its founding by the Arts and Sciences faculty in 1984, over 10,000 teachers, from a variety of disciplines, have attended CLA programs that have drawn on the contributions of hundreds of scholars-among them the university's most distinguished researchers, including Edward Ayers, the 2003 National Professor of the Year at Doctoral and Research Universities, John Lyons, Deborah McDowell, Joseph Miller, and many others.

CLA's mission is to assist the schools in defining what Americans need to know, to improve the teaching of all academic disciplines taught in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and to provide a national model demonstrating that universities have the capacity and responsibility to re-establish the foundations of school-based learning-knowledge of history, politics, language, art, literature, mathematics, and science.