Why knowledge matters

rescuing our children from failed educational theories

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E. D. Hirsch: Why knowledge matters (2016)

270 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2016

ISBN:
978-1-61250-952-5
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OCLC Number:
945767560

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In this provocative book, influential scholar E.D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform - over-testing, teacher blaming, preschool fadeout, and the persistence of achievement gaps over time. In each case, he shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences. Drawing on recent findings in neuroscience and new data from France, he provides new evidence for the argument that a coherent, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success and ensuring equal opportunity for students of all backgrounds.

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Subjects

  • Aims and objectives
  • Educational accountability
  • Educational innovations
  • Standards
  • Curricula
  • Educational change
  • Education
  • Elementary Education