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Why knowledge matters : rescuing our children from failed educational theories /

In this provocative book, influential scholar E.D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform - over-testing, teacher blaming, preschool fadeout, and the persistence of achievement gaps over time. In each case, he shows how cherished truisms about education and child dev...

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Main Author:	Hirsch, E. D., Jr. (Eric Donald), 1928- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Education, Elementary > Curricula. Educational change. Educational accountability. Education > Standards. Education > Aims and objectives. Educational innovations.

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