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Rotten to the Core

Kohl, H. | April 6, 1992 issue

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This article discusses books "What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education" and "What Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education," edited by E.D. Hirsch. At the end of the book Hirsch provides a sixty-three-page list of words and phrases that "illustrate the character and range of the knowledge literate Americans tend to share" No doubt there are people who have mastered the meaning of most of the words on the list and understand the concepts they represent in some depth, and it may be that Hirsch wishes to restrict his notion of literacy to that small group.

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BOOKS; WHAT Your 1st Grader Needs to Know (Book); WHAT Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education (Book); HIRSCH, E. D.; LITERACY; INTELLECT; READERSHIP; UNITED States

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