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The Ratchet Effect: Shared Knowledge, Shared Values

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.’s new book, The Ratchet Effect: Shared Knowledge, Shared Values challenges “the child-centered romantics who now...
December 11, 2024 Core Knowledge Foundation
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A Brief Appreciation of E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, offers a succinct appreciation of three profound ideas that E....
March 28, 2018 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Cultural Literacy and the Language of Upward Mobility

There is, without question, a language of privilege in America that excludes those who do not speak it fluently. And it...
July 14, 2017 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Shared Knowledge and the Right Kind of Nationalism

In a new article, Core Knowledge founder E. D. Hirsch, Jr. explores the complex nature of nationalism and its...
April 7, 2017 Core Knowledge Foundation
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E. D. Hirsch, Jr.’s New Book Affirms Why Knowledge Matters

The ideas that thirty years ago prodded a scholar of English literature from the halls of academe into elementary...
September 21, 2016 Core Knowledge Foundation
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What Americans Want to Know

Sometimes, dreams really do come true. In June, I called for knowledge equality through a new, crowd-sourced effort to...
December 21, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Dear Chiefs: This Is Your Chance to Close the Reading Achievement Gap

Assuming all goes as planned, we should have a new federal education law by the end of the year....
December 1, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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This Is Not Your Father’s Geography

Missouri: Jefferson City, Corn. Kansas: Topeka, Corn. States, capitals, crops. That’s pretty much what my geography education consisted of....
November 4, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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The High-Tech Road to Literacy

Every time I see a toddler with an iPad, I cringe just a little. I try to hide it....
October 27, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation
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Help Wanted: Smartphone and Grit Required, Knowledge Optional

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never seen a position description for a good job that didn’t have a...
October 21, 2015 Core Knowledge Foundation