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- Title
- Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
- Author
- Hirsch, E. D.
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Publication year
- 1987
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 039543095X
- ISBN 13
- 9780395430958
- Item weight
- 23 ounces
- Dimensions
- 8x5x1
An argument for establishing a core curriculum of the basic information everyone needs to know, based on the author's hypothesis that being culturally literate is the foundation of intellectual competence.
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About the Author
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the author of several acclaimed books on education issues, including the bestseller Cultural Literacy. With his subsequent books The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them, The Knowledge Deficit, The Making of Americans, and Why Knowledge Matters, Dr. Hirsch solidified his reputation as one of the most influential education reformers of our time. Dr. Hirsch is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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