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Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1989
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- Title
- A First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Our Children Need to Know
- Author
- E. D. Hirsch
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Publication year
- 1989
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0395510406
- ISBN 13
- 9780395510407
Presents an outline of the knowledge that, according to the Cultural Literacy Foundation, should be acquired by the end of sixth grade, in such categories as literature, religion and philosophy, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
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About the Author
E.D. Hirsch, Jr. is the Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the author of Cultural Literacy, The First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, and The Core Knowledge Series. Dr. Hirsch is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been a senior fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is president of the Core Knowledge Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to educational reform.
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