The Resource How to educate a citizen : the power of shared knowledge to unify a nation, E.D. Hirsch, Jr
How to educate a citizen : the power of shared knowledge to unify a nation, E.D. Hirsch, Jr
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- Summary
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- Addresses the failures and consequences of America's early education system, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum that provides an educational foundation for all students to strengthen American unity, identity, and democracy
- Hirsch addresses the failures of America's early education system and its impact on our current national malaise. He advocates for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught-- an educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen America's unity, identity, and democracy. Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance. -- adapted from jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Contents
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- The decline of the common school. When our schools abandoned commonality, we became a nation at risk ; The child-centered classroom ; "Nobody leaves": the dazzling success of shared-knowledge schools ; The problem starts at our teacher-training institutes
- Science debunks a child-centered education. Culture, not nature, knows best-- says nature ; The lessons of educational failure and success around the world
- American ethnicity: will the common school make a comeback? Commonality in a multiethnic nation ; How to improve the "common core" ; Patriotism: shared knowledge and kindness
- Afterword: What can be done right now?
- Isbn
- 9780063001923
- Label
- How to educate a citizen : the power of shared knowledge to unify a nation
- Title
- How to educate a citizen
- Title remainder
- the power of shared knowledge to unify a nation
- Statement of responsibility
- E.D. Hirsch, Jr
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- Addresses the failures and consequences of America's early education system, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum that provides an educational foundation for all students to strengthen American unity, identity, and democracy
- Hirsch addresses the failures of America's early education system and its impact on our current national malaise. He advocates for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught-- an educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen America's unity, identity, and democracy. Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance. -- adapted from jacket
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1928-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hirsch, E. D.
- Dewey number
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- 372.19
- 372
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Education, Elementary
- Education
- Education
- Educational change
- Educational accountability
- Education
- Education, Elementary
- Education
- Educational accountability
- Educational change
- Label
- How to educate a citizen : the power of shared knowledge to unify a nation, E.D. Hirsch, Jr
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index
- Contents
- The decline of the common school. When our schools abandoned commonality, we became a nation at risk ; The child-centered classroom ; "Nobody leaves": the dazzling success of shared-knowledge schools ; The problem starts at our teacher-training institutes -- Science debunks a child-centered education. Culture, not nature, knows best-- says nature ; The lessons of educational failure and success around the world -- American ethnicity: will the common school make a comeback? Commonality in a multiethnic nation ; How to improve the "common core" ; Patriotism: shared knowledge and kindness -- Afterword: What can be done right now?
- Control code
- on1190754279
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780063001923
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1190754279
- Label
- How to educate a citizen : the power of shared knowledge to unify a nation, E.D. Hirsch, Jr
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index
- Contents
- The decline of the common school. When our schools abandoned commonality, we became a nation at risk ; The child-centered classroom ; "Nobody leaves": the dazzling success of shared-knowledge schools ; The problem starts at our teacher-training institutes -- Science debunks a child-centered education. Culture, not nature, knows best-- says nature ; The lessons of educational failure and success around the world -- American ethnicity: will the common school make a comeback? Commonality in a multiethnic nation ; How to improve the "common core" ; Patriotism: shared knowledge and kindness -- Afterword: What can be done right now?
- Control code
- on1190754279
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 213 pages
- Isbn
- 9780063001923
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1190754279
Subject
- Education -- Standards
- Education -- Standards
- Education, Elementary -- Curricula
- Education, Elementary -- Curricula
- Educational accountability
- Education -- Aims and objectives
- Educational change
- Educational change
- Interviews
- Interviews
- Educational accountability
- Education -- Aims and objectives
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