The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have ThemThe Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them
Title rated 0 out of 5 stars, based on 0 ratings(0 ratings)
Book, 1996
Current format, Book, 1996, , Available .Book, 1996
Current format, Book, 1996, , Available . Offered in 0 more formatsAs renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues in The Schools We Need, in disdaining content-based curricula for abstract - and discredited - theories of how a child learns, the ideas uniformly taught by our schools have done terrible harm to America's students. Instead of preparing our children for the highly competitive, information-based economy in which we now live, our school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn.
There is a solution. Mainstream research has shown that if children - all children, not just the privileged - are taught in ways that emphasize hard work, the learning of facts, and rigorous testing, their enthusiasm for school will grow, their test scores will rise, and they will become successful citizens in the information-age civilization.
The author of the best-selling Cultural Literacy offers a plan for reforming American education by emphasizing the vigorous teaching of facts and skills rather than the "hands-off" encouragement of independent learning common today. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Offers a plan for reforming American education by emphasizing the teaching of facts and skills rather than the "hands-off" encouragement of independent learning
There is a solution. Mainstream research has shown that if children - all children, not just the privileged - are taught in ways that emphasize hard work, the learning of facts, and rigorous testing, their enthusiasm for school will grow, their test scores will rise, and they will become successful citizens in the information-age civilization.
The author of the best-selling Cultural Literacy offers a plan for reforming American education by emphasizing the vigorous teaching of facts and skills rather than the "hands-off" encouragement of independent learning common today. 60,000 first printing. $60,000 ad/promo. Tour.
Offers a plan for reforming American education by emphasizing the teaching of facts and skills rather than the "hands-off" encouragement of independent learning
Title availability
About
Subject and genre
Details
Publication
- New York : Doubleday, c1996.
Opinion
More from the community
Community lists featuring this title
There are no community lists featuring this title
Community contributions
There are no quotations from this title
There are no quotations from this title
From the community