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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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: the tyranny of three ideas
  • The invalid testing of students
  • The scapegoating of teachers
  • Preschool and the persistence of fadeout
  • The dilution of the elementary curriculum
  • The persistence of achievement gaps
  • The tribulations of the common core
  • The educational fall of France
  • The knowledge-based school
  • Epilogue: breaking free
  • Appendix i: the origins of natural-development theories of education
  • Appendix ii: translations of French reports
  • Appendix iii: the Japanese early science curriculum.