Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
ISBN-13:
9780394758435
ISBN-10:
0394758439
Edition:
1st edtion
Author:
E. D. Hirsch Jr.
Publication date:
1988
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
Category:
Evolution
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Education Theory
,
Schools & Teaching
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ISBN-13:
9780394758435
ISBN-10:
0394758439
Edition:
1st edtion
Author:
E. D. Hirsch Jr.
Publication date:
1988
Publisher:
Vintage
Format:
Paperback
272 pages
Category:
Evolution
,
Cultural
,
Anthropology
,
Education Theory
,
Schools & Teaching
Summary
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (ISBN-13: 9780394758435 and ISBN-10: 0394758439), written by authors
E. D. Hirsch Jr., was published by Vintage in 1988.
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A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know.
In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.
In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.
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