The knowledge deficit : closing the shocking education gap for American children / E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
2006
LB1050 .H567 2006 (Mapit)
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The knowledge deficit : closing the shocking education gap for American children / E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
ISBN
0618657312
Publication Details
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 169 p. ; 22 cm.
Item Number
9780618657315
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LB1050 .H567 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
428.4/071
Summary
Hirsch shows why American students perform less well than students in other industrialized countries. Drawing on classroom observation, the history of ideas, and current scientific understanding of the patterns of intellectual growth, he builds the case that our schools have indeed made progress in teaching the mechanics of reading, but do not convey the more complex and essential content needed for reading comprehension. Hirsch reasons that literacy depends less on formal reading 'skills' and more on exposure to rich knowledge. His argument gives parents specific tools for enhancing their child's ability to read with comprehension; shows how No-Child-Left-Behind tests and SATs are measuring a kind of knowledge that is not being taught in our schools; and maps out how American schools can become a strong antidote to poverty and to the race-based achievement gap, and thus fulfill our democratic ideal for our children.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-158) and index.
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Table of Contents
The origins of the knowledge deficit
Sounding out : just the beginning of reading
Knowledge of language
Knowledge of things
Using school time productively
Using tests productively
Achieving commonality and fairness.
Sounding out : just the beginning of reading
Knowledge of language
Knowledge of things
Using school time productively
Using tests productively
Achieving commonality and fairness.