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Published January 1, 2000
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E.D. Hirsch Jr.
156 books111 followersE. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several acclaimed books on education in which he has persisted as a voice of reason making the case for equality of educational opportunity.
A highly regarded literary critic and professor of English earlier in his career, Dr. Hirsch recalls being “shocked into education reform” while doing research on written composition at a pair of colleges in Virginia. During these studies he observed that a student’s ability to comprehend a passage was determined in part by the relative readability of the text, but even more by the student’s background knowledge.
This research led Dr. Hirsch to develop his concept of cultural literacy—the idea that reading comprehension requires not just formal decoding skills but also wide-ranging background knowledge. In 1986 he founded the Core Knowledge Foundation. A year later he published Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, which remained at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for more than six months. His subsequent books include The Schools We Need, The Knowledge Deficit, The Making of Americans, and most recently, How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation.
In How to Educate a Citizen (September, 2020), E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging America’s public schools, particularly in Preschool – Grade 8, to educate our children using common, coherent and sequenced curricula to help heal and preserve the nation.
A highly regarded literary critic and professor of English earlier in his career, Dr. Hirsch recalls being “shocked into education reform” while doing research on written composition at a pair of colleges in Virginia. During these studies he observed that a student’s ability to comprehend a passage was determined in part by the relative readability of the text, but even more by the student’s background knowledge.
This research led Dr. Hirsch to develop his concept of cultural literacy—the idea that reading comprehension requires not just formal decoding skills but also wide-ranging background knowledge. In 1986 he founded the Core Knowledge Foundation. A year later he published Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, which remained at the top of the New York Times bestseller list for more than six months. His subsequent books include The Schools We Need, The Knowledge Deficit, The Making of Americans, and most recently, How to Educate a Citizen: The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation.
In How to Educate a Citizen (September, 2020), E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging America’s public schools, particularly in Preschool – Grade 8, to educate our children using common, coherent and sequenced curricula to help heal and preserve the nation.
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May 6, 2021SPEECHES WERE WOW
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May 7, 2021A great book if you want to see some speeches from Martin Luther King Jr. and some poems by William Shakespeare.
July 8, 2021
As this volume is included in the core curriculum it should be required reading for everyone. Not sure how or why this particular collection was chosen but I suppose I’ll have to trust the experts. I didn’t recognize all the authors’ names. Those names I did recognize were not represented by their most notable works. They were all noteworthy and enjoyable nonetheless.
I must confess to having skipped the poetry section. I just don’t get poetry! When set to music, poetry can elicit a profoundly emotional response but in written form it just seems pretentious in the extreme. The intentional breaking of grammatical rules and seemingly arbitrary line breaks makes most poetic verse not only unreadable for me but completely incomprehensible.
I must confess to having skipped the poetry section. I just don’t get poetry! When set to music, poetry can elicit a profoundly emotional response but in written form it just seems pretentious in the extreme. The intentional breaking of grammatical rules and seemingly arbitrary line breaks makes most poetic verse not only unreadable for me but completely incomprehensible.
December 21, 2019
Average rating:3.5/5 stars
The Bet: 5 stars
The Open Boat: 2.5 stars
An Honest Thief: 3.5 stars
Dr.Heidegger's Experimnet: 3.75 stars
God Sees the Truth, But Waits: 2.75 stars
These are the only stories we read in class and for homework in the anthology, but if we end up reading more I'll end up adding onto this. Since school is on break until January 7th, so I don't know if we're continuing this in the new year.
The Bet: 5 stars
The Open Boat: 2.5 stars
An Honest Thief: 3.5 stars
Dr.Heidegger's Experimnet: 3.75 stars
God Sees the Truth, But Waits: 2.75 stars
These are the only stories we read in class and for homework in the anthology, but if we end up reading more I'll end up adding onto this. Since school is on break until January 7th, so I don't know if we're continuing this in the new year.
May 7, 2021
i didnt even read it lol idk what it is abt so yah. YASSSSSSSSSS. we stan mr lutherr king or whateva
May 19, 2021
Not really my kind of book but it was fine.
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