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Cultural Literacy

What Every American Needs to Know

By E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

By E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

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Category: Nonfiction

Paperback $16.95

Apr 12, 1988 | ISBN 9780394758435

Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Apr 12, 1988 | ISBN 9780394758435

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About Cultural Literacy

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.

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About E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

E. D. Hirsch, Jr., is an emeritus professor at the University of Virginia and the author of The Knowledge Deficit, The Schools We Need, and the bestselling Cultural Literacy and the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. He and his wife, Polly,… More about E.D. Hirsch, Jr.

Product Details

Category: Nonfiction

Paperback | $16.95
Published by Vintage
Apr 12, 1988 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780394758435

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