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Now in paperback with a new introduction, The Schools We Need 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 emphasized over the facts taught. All of this is tragically wrong.
Renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that, by disdaining content-based curricula while favoring 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.
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, by disdaining content-based curricula while favoring 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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Format:Paperback
If international constructivism in education isn't including poor people, at least it manages to include all kinds of victims. The situation is not limited to the USA: many countries in Europe have the same history, and suffer the same "beneficial" effects from the self denominated "sciences of education": ignorance and exclusion. This book is illuminating and should be pondered by every cabinet deciding teaching policies in democratic countries. A must for teachers and parents.
Format:Hardcover
Readers of this excellent book should also read The Disciplined Mind, the latest book by Howard Gardner, because Gardner describes his book in the introduction as a "sustained dialectic -- read disagreement -- with E. D. Hirsch ...," describing 'core knowledge' as "an idle pursuit ... superficial and ... anti-intellectual" and later as "a course of study that blitzes, in thirty-five breathless weeks, from Plato to NATO or from Cleopatra to Clinton." Thus co-starring Hirsch as his most formidable adversary, the book is a sample both of how Gardner has habitually misrepresented Hirsch's program in order to attack him, but more notably shows the extent to which Gardner has come to agree with Hirsch. Amazon.com's features showing what other books in the same field customers buy reveals how all too often we read only the books on our side of an issue. In this case readers of Schools and any other of Hirsch's works should read his most illustrious adversary as well. It is revealing and perhaps encouraging.
Format:Hardcover
I salute anyone as passionate and brilliant as Mr. Hirsch, and I believe that his approach would be an improvement to our current system (what wouldn't be?) However, the cultural realities in the U.S., a global economy and the expanding rift between upper and lower class in America beg for a system which is far more flexible in design. Please, let there be free market competition and innovation to change our schools...and let me choose which is the best for my child.
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Finally some common-sense educational theory!!
This book is a must-read for both educators and parents. For anyone like myself who has no formal background in education, this book is very enlightening and totally readable. Read more
Published on 9 July 1998
Higher Ed is not immune.
I, too, speak from long experience in k-12 education, although most of it belongs to my parents and grandparents. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 1998
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