E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Author of Cultural Literacy)

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Books by E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Average rating: 3.86 · 2,079 ratings · 283 reviews · 55 distinct works

	Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know 3.62 avg rating — 400 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E.D. Hirsch Jr., James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett 4.09 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (Core Knowledge Series) by E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Editor), John Holdren (Editor) 3.86 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 1996 — 4 editions	My rating:
	What Your First Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education (The Core Knowledge Series) 3.90 avg rating — 200 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	What Your Second Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second Grade Education Revised (The Core Knowledge Series) by E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Editor), John Holdren 4.04 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E.D. Hirsch Jr., James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett 4.04 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	My rating:
	What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Read-Alouds to Get Ready for Kindergarten (Core Knowledge) by E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Editor), Linda Bevilacqua 3.80 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	What Your Third Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series) 3.91 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children by E.D. Hirsch Jr., E. D. Hirsch 3.96 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them 3.59 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	My rating:

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Series by E.D. Hirsch Jr.

Core Knowledge (9 books)
by E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Editor)

3.92 avg rating — 1,014 ratings

Core Knowledge Teacher Handbook (6 books)
by E.D. Hirsch Jr., Souzanne A. Wrigt

4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings

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“I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr.

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“Consider now the primal scene of education in the modern elementary school. Let us assume that a teacher wishes to inform a class of some 20 pupils about the structure of atoms, and that she plans to base the day's instruction on an analogy with the solar system. She knows that the instruction will be effective only to the extent that all the students in the class already know about the solar system. A good teacher would probably try to find out. 'Now, class, how many of you know about the solar system?' Fifteen hands go up. Five stay down. What is a teacher to do in this typical circumstance in the contemporary American school?

"If he or she pauses to explain the solar system, a class period is lost, and 15 of the 20 students are bored and deprived of knowledge for that day. If the teacher plunges ahead with atomic structure, the hapless five—they are most likely to be poor or minority students—are bored, humiliated and deprived, because they cannot comprehend the teacher's explanation.”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr.

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“Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.”
― E.D. Hirsch Jr., Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

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