How to educate a citizen : the power of shared knowledge to unify a nation /
Hirsch addresses the failures of America's early education system and its impact on our current national malaise. He advocates for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught, an educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen America's unity, identity and d...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The decline of the common school. When our schools abandoned commonality, we became a nation at risk ; The child-centered classroom ; "Nobody leaves": the dazzling success of shared-knowledge schools ; The problem starts at our teacher-training institutes
- Science debunks a child-centered education. Culture, not nature, knows best-- says nature ; The lessons of educational failure and success around the world
- American ethnicity: will the common school make a comeback? Commonality in a multiethnic nation ; How to improve the "common core" ; Patriotism: shared knowledge and kindness
- Afterword: What can be done right now?