The Schools We Need: and Why We Don't Have Them - Tapa dura

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.

f Cultural Literacy offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas.
From kindergarten through high school, the American education is the worst in the developed world, and the causes of its failure and any possible solutions to it are hotly disputed. For over fifty years, American schools have operated on the assumption that challenging children is bad for them, teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning "process" should be emphasised over the facts taught within it. Yet, as renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch shows in The Schools We Need, this establishment ideology is a tragedy of good intentions gone awry. Hirsch argues that in eschewing content-based curricula for abstract--and disproved--theories of congnitive development, the educational establishment has done irreparable harm to America's students, and instead of preparing them for the co