#e.d. hirsch

[canonfodderblog]

Conservatives thus embraced Hirsch eagerly and breathlessly. He was a stout defender of the patrimony. Liberals eagerly and breathlessly attacked him with equal vigor. He was retrograde, Eurocentric, racist, sexist. His list was a last gasp (or was it a fierce counterattack?) by a fading (or was it resurgent?) white establishment.

Eric Liu’s What Every American Should Know: Defining common cultural literacy for an increasingly diverse nation Atlantic piece

[from-student-to-teacher]

The False Promise of Core Knowledge

When I was in second grade, my friend Rebecca and I used to read books together. We would peruse classics such as C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia serie...

[cricketmuse]

A Few Words to the Wise

A Few Words to the Wise

It’s not news that the American education system is not working well. I came across an article that made me stop and think about whether my own teaching techniques are contributing to the problem. My paradigm got a bit nudged. One thing I do agree with Hirsch is that vocabulary is an important aspect of student success. If you are interested in reading one man’s opinion about how to overhaul the…

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[toocoolfoschool75]

What Does Every American Need to Know Today?

E.D. Hirsch, most famous for authoring the 1987 best-seller Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know, is due for a reconsideration, the New York Times recently supposed, in a story that opens as if the retired scholar’s field of study was the sweet science: “A generation after he was squarely pummeled as elitist, antiquated and...

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In case anyone was wondering, E.D. Hirsch is a bigoted jackass.