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The schools we need and why we don't have them

Title: The schools we need and why we don't have them / E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Author: Hirsch, E. D., Jr. (Eric Donald), 1928-
Publication: New York : Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1999.

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Description

xviii, 317 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world. For over fifty years, the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning "process" should by emphasized over the facts taught has prevailed. all this is tragically wrong. As renowned educator and author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., argues in The Schools We Need, in disdaining content-based curricula for abstract - and discredited - theories of how a child learns, the ideas uniformly taught by our schools have done terrible harm to America's students. Instead of preparing our children for the highly competitive, information-based economy in which we now live, our school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn. There is a solution. Mainstream research has shown that if children - all children, not just the privileged - are taught in ways that emphasize hard work, the learning of facts, and rigorous testing, their enthusiasm for school will grow, their test scores will rise, and they will become successful citizens in the information-age civilization.

Alternative Title

Schools we need

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-302) and index.

Contents

Introduction : failed theories, famished minds -- Intellectual capital : a civil right -- An impregnable fortress -- Critique of a thoughtworld -- Reality's revenge : education and mainstream research -- Test evasion.

ISBN

0385495242
9780385495240

LCCN

99028096

OCLC

ocm41326651
41326651
SCSB-1145028

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Princeton University Library