What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (The core knowledge series) - Softcover

Hirsch, E. D; Holdren, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385318413 ISBN 13: 9780385318419

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1997

Synopsis

Designed for parents to use with their children, and co-edited by the author of Cultural Literacy, a primer incorporates the contributions of two thousand parents and teachers into an accessible introduction to the world of knowledge. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author

E. D. Hirsch, Jr., is an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia and the author of The Knowledge Deficit, The Schools We Need, and the bestselling Cultural Literacy and the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. He and his wife, Polly, live in Charlottesville, Virginia, where they raised their three children.

From the Inside Flap

perts agree: the first years of a child's education are crucial to lifetime educational achievements. Parents and teachers have known this instinctively for years--the fact that What Your First Grader Needs to Know remains the bestselling Core Knowledge title is solid proof--and in response to their repeated requests, Doubleday is proud to offer What Your Kindergartner Needs To Know. The latest volume in the phenomenally successful Core Knowledge Series, which has more than one million copies in print in hardcover alone, features eighty pages of vibrant, full-color illustrations and a user-friendly design--specifically created for parents and teachers to use with kindergarten-age children.
Based on E.D. Hirsch's realization that much of the decline in America's educational standards has occurred because vague "skills," not information, are taught in the primary grades, it emphasizes fundamental knowledge in math, science, art, history, lan

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0385318413
• ISBN 13: 9780385318419
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 292