Cultural literacy, what every American needs to know, E.D. Hirsch, Jr
Type
Label
Cultural literacy, what every American needs to know, E.D. Hirsch, Jr
Language
eng
resource.accompanyingMatter
libretto or text
Form of composition
not applicable
Format of music
not applicable
Literary text for sound recordings
other
Main title
Cultural literacy
Medium
electronic resource
Music parts
not applicable
Oclc number
71777339
Responsibility statement
E.D. Hirsch, Jr
Sub title
what every American needs to know
Summary
In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Thus even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought
Target audience
general
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Classification
Contributor
Genre
Subject
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject5
- Mapped to1