Cultural Literacy : What Every American Needs to Know

Hirsch, E. D., Jr.

ISBN 10: 039543095X ISBN 13: 9780395430958

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1987

Language: English

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Cultural Literacy : What Every American Needs to Know

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

039543095X

ISBN 13

9780395430958

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Hardcover

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1st.

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Good

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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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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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