Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
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Book Description
In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Thus even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or... More
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Publisher | William A Thomas Braille Bookstore |
Binding | Paperback (27 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 643 |
ISBN-10 | 1569562199 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1569562192 |
Publication Date | 12/1992 |
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