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Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

E.D. Hirsch Jr.
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An argument for establishing a core curriculum of the basic information everyone needs to know, based on the author's hypothesis that being culturally literate is the foundation of intellectual competence.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Literacy & cultural literacy
The discovery of the schema
National language & national culture
American diversity & public discourse
Cultural literacy & the schools
The practical outlook
Appendix: what literate Americans know
Notes
Index
Format:
Pages:
251 pages
Publication:
1988
Publisher:
Edition:
Updated and Expanded, 1st edtion, 3rd Printing
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0394758439
ISBN13:
9780394758435
kindle Asin:
B0BXB9HRRF

Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

E.D. Hirsch Jr.
3.69/5 (1393 ratings)
Read Download
An argument for establishing a core curriculum of the basic information everyone needs to know, based on the author's hypothesis that being culturally literate is the foundation of intellectual competence.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Literacy & cultural literacy
The discovery of the schema
National language & national culture
American diversity & public discourse
Cultural literacy & the schools
The practical outlook
Appendix: what literate Americans know
Notes
Index
Format:
Pages:
251 pages
Publication:
1988
Publisher:
Edition:
Updated and Expanded, 1st edtion, 3rd Printing
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0394758439
ISBN13:
9780394758435
kindle Asin:
B0BXB9HRRF

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