The schools we need and why we don't have them /
Hirsch, E. D. 1928-
The schools we need and why we don't have them / Schools we need E.D. Hirsch, Jr. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 1996. - xiii, 317 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-302) and index.
Introduction: Failed theories, famished minds -- Intellectual capital: A civil right -- An impregnable fortress -- Critique of a thoughtworld -- Reality's revenge: Education and mainstream research -- Test evasion -- Summary and conclusion -- Critical guide to educational terms and phrases.
From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world. For over fifty years, 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 by emphasized over the facts taught has prevailed. all this is tragically wrong. As renowned educator and author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., argues in The Schools We Need, 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 school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn. There is a solution. Mainstream research has shown that if children - all children, not just the privileged - are taught in ways that emphasize hard work, the learning of facts, and rigorous testing, their enthusiasm for school will grow, their test scores will rise, and they will become successful citizens in the information-age civilization.
0385484577 9780385484572
96002192
Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
Education--Philosophy.--United States
Educational change--United States.
Education--Social aspects--United States.
Education--Philosophy.--United States
Education--Social aspects--United States.
LA217.2 / .H57 1996 LA 210 H669s 1996 H669 1996
370.11 370/.973
The schools we need and why we don't have them / Schools we need E.D. Hirsch, Jr. - 1st ed. - New York : Doubleday, 1996. - xiii, 317 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-302) and index.
Introduction: Failed theories, famished minds -- Intellectual capital: A civil right -- An impregnable fortress -- Critique of a thoughtworld -- Reality's revenge: Education and mainstream research -- Test evasion -- Summary and conclusion -- Critical guide to educational terms and phrases.
From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world. For over fifty years, 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 by emphasized over the facts taught has prevailed. all this is tragically wrong. As renowned educator and author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., argues in The Schools We Need, 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 school practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn. There is a solution. Mainstream research has shown that if children - all children, not just the privileged - are taught in ways that emphasize hard work, the learning of facts, and rigorous testing, their enthusiasm for school will grow, their test scores will rise, and they will become successful citizens in the information-age civilization.
0385484577 9780385484572
96002192
Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
Education--Philosophy.--United States
Educational change--United States.
Education--Social aspects--United States.
Education--Philosophy.--United States
Education--Social aspects--United States.
LA217.2 / .H57 1996 LA 210 H669s 1996 H669 1996
370.11 370/.973