Why knowledge matters : rescuing our children from failed educational theories
Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald), 1928-2016
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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.
Main title:
Why knowledge matters : rescuing our children from failed educational theories / E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
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Imprint:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2016]
Collation:
270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Prologue: the tyranny of three ideasThe invalid testing of studentsThe scapegoating of teachersPreschool and the persistence of fadeoutThe dilution of the elementary curriculumThe persistence of achievement gapsThe tribulations of the common coreThe educational fall of FranceThe knowledge-based schoolEpilogue: breaking freeAppendix i: the origins of natural-development theories of educationAppendix ii: translations of French reportsAppendix iii: the Japanese early science curriculum.
ISBN:
9781612509525 (pbk)9781612509532 (library edition)
Dewey class:
372
LC class:
LB1570
Language:
English
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BRN:
791691