Cultural literacy
Subtitle: what every American needs to know
By: E.D. Hirsch, Jr. ; with an appendix, What literate Americans know [by] E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph Kett, James Trefil.
Contributors: Kett, Joseph F.; Trefil, James S., 1938-
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Educational anthropology -- United States; Culture; Multicultural education -- United States; Literacy -- United States
Description: Discusses how to enable students to make sense of what they read through prior knowledge of events, etc.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 216-238.
Includes index.