The Schools We Need
And Why We Don't Have Them
$34.36
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
17 August 1999
Summary
This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America’s schooling methods and ideas–by one of America’s most important educators, and author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy.
For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning “process” should be emp…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385495240 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385495242 |
| Author: | E.D. Hirsch |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Anchor Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 17 August 1999 |
| Weight: | 374g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
“Offers a penetrating and compelling analysis of how, despite the good intentions of educators, bad ideas and failed theories now characterize American education.”–The Indianapolis Star“A brilliant, combative, and intensely practical discussion of how our education system got into its current mess and what we must do to pull it out.”–Donna Fowler, American Federation of Teachers“A damning, highly provocative, full-scale assault on today’s educational establishment.”–Publishers Weekly
About The Author
E.D. Hirsch
E. D. Hirsch, Jr., is a professor at the University of Virginia and the author of the bestselling Cultural Literacy and The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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