The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
Everyone wonders why American schools have gone bad. E.D. Hirsch, author ofCultural Literacy, offers a compelling explanation.  Schools do a lousy job of transmitting "core knowledge" to their students, he says.  To improve, they must abandon all of their feel-good theories about "critical thinking" and work harder to endow kids with intellectual capital at an early age. It may sound like common sense, but this important book shows why so many educators appear to have lost theirs.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.