The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385495242 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Now I Know Why Johnny Can't Read I now have better insight into my own frustrations with the public schools. My children, fortunately, have educated parents who supplement their classroom 'learning'. The schools have, unfortunately, bored them with a disconnected curriculum that doesn't even come close to challenging them.Hirsch provides insight into how we got into this mess and what we need to do to fix the problem. This is a must-read book if. Teach"Ms. L" according to Teach2Me. Excellent Book! Read Cultural Literacy first. It'll make your understanding of this book a lot clearer.. Me said Ms. L. Excellent Book! Read Cultural Literacy first. It'll make your understanding of this book a lot clearer.. In time for the next generation? A Customer I have alternately blessed and cursed Hirsch for The Schools We Need. A profoundly important work - but too late for my children!A year ago, I retired from the practice of law to provide full time academic support to my children. Only then did I discover that my 5th, 7th and 9th graders, all of whom attend the 'best' private school in our area, could not perform any of the basic algorithms with consistent accurac
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. 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
E.D. . Everyone wonders why American schools have gone bad. Hirsch, author of Cultural Literacy, offers a compelling explanation. It may sound like common sense, but this important book shows why so many educators appear to have lost theirs. To improve, they must abandon all of their feel-good theories about "critical thinking" and work harder to endow kids with intellectual capital at an early age. Schools do a lousy job of transmitting "core knowledge" to their students, he says