Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Edited By: Pat Mulcahy
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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know  -     Edited By: Pat Mulcahy
    By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

Edited By: Pat Mulcahy
Vintage / 1988 / Paperback

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Title: Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
By: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 272
Vendor: Vintage
Publication Date: 1988
Dimensions: 8.08 X 5.24 X 0.73 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 0394758439
ISBN-13: 9780394758435
Stock No: WW758435

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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.

Author Bio

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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