The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them

by E.D. Hirsch

ISBN: 9780385495240
ISBN10: 0385495242

The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them

by E.D. Hirsch

Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Publish date: 09/01/1999
ISBN: 9780385495240
ISBN10: 0385495242

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Description: 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 emphasized over the facts taught. All of this is tragically wrong.

Renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that, 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 schools' practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn.

With an introduction that surveys developments in education since the hardcover edition was published, The Schools We Need is a passionate and thoughtful book that will appeal to the millions of people who can't understand why America's schools aren't educating our children.

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