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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
Contributor(s): Hirsch, E. D. (Author), Trefil, James (Author)
ISBN: 1094063614     ISBN-13: 9781094063614
Publisher: Hmh Audio
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Product Type: MP3 CD - Other Formats
Published: September 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy
- Education | Multicultural Education
- Reference
Dewey: 370.19
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
 
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A must-listen for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know.

In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required listening for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.

Contributor Bio(s): Trefil, James: - James Trefil, the Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University, is the author or coauthor of more than thirty books, including The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy.Hirsch, E. D.: - E.D. Hirsch, Jr. is the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the author of Cultural Literacy, The First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, and The Core Knowledge Series. Dr. Hirsch is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is president of the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to educational reform.