The Schools We Need: and Why We Don't Have Them Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Schools We Need: and Why We Don't Have Them Book

Everyone wonders why American schools have gone bad. E.D. Hirsch, author of Cultural Literacy, offers a compelling explanation. Schools do a lousy job of transmitting "core knowledge" to their students, he says. To improve, they must abandon all of their feel-good theories about "critical thinking" and work harder to endow kids with intellectual capital at an early age. It may sound like common sense, but this important book shows why so many educators appear to have lost theirs.Read More

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  • Product Description

    The author of the best-selling Cultural Literacy offers a plan for reforming American education by emphasizing the vigorous teaching of facts and skills rather than the ""hands-off"" encouragement of independent learning common today. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.

  • 0385484577
  • 9780385484572
  • E. D Hirsch
  • 31 December 1996
  • Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
  • 1
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