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Why Knowledge Matters

In Why Knowledge Matters, influential scholar E. D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform and shows how cherished truisms about education and child development have led to unintended and negative consequences.

Author:

  • E. D. Hirsch

Narrator:

  • BJ Harrison

Format:

  • Audiobook

Duration:

  • 8 h 20 min

Language:

English

Categories:

  • Nonfiction
  • Education and pedagogy

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    E. D. Hirsch

    E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder and chairman of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several acclaimed books on education, including the New York Times bestseller Cultural Literacy, The Schools We Need, The Knowledge Deficit, The Making of Americans, and Why Knowledge Matters. He lives in Earlysville, Virginia.

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