This volume of the Core Knowledge Foundation was specifically created for parents and teachers to use with kindergarten-age children. It is based on E. D. Hirsch's realization that much of the decline in America's educational standards has occurred because vague "skills," not information, are taught in the primary grades, and, instead, his ...
This new, revised edition of this popular volume on the bestselling Core Knowledge series reflects the feedback and suggestions of the scores of parents and schools currently using the series. Color photos and illustrations enliven the material so that parents and teachers can easily engage the child's attention.
The "Core Knowledge" series helps children gain the fundamental knowledge they will need to make progress in school and be effective members of society. Specific knowledge in the subject areas of language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
The Core Knowledge Series helps children gain the fundamental specific knowledge they will need to make progress in school and be effective in society. Subject areas include: language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
The 'Core Knowledge' Series helps children gain the fundamental, specific knowledge they will need to make progress in school and be effective in society. Subject areas include: language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
This reference work compiles the shared knowledge of American culture that Professor Hirsch advocated all American should know in his bestseller CULTURAL LITERACY.
E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum emphasizes "information" over "skills." This is a one-volume reference to fundamental knowledge in math, science, art, history, language arts, geography, and technology.
An insightful thinker on what schools teach shows why American students are losing the global education race and performing worse than students in other industrialized countries.
The author 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.
The "Core Knowledge" series helps children gain the fundamental knowledge they will need in order to make progress in school and be effective members of society. Specific knowledge in the subject areas of language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
The author of the bestselling and much-discussed "Cultural Literacy" follows up with a reference book on just what he thinks children need to know. Includes information on such topics as mythology, religion, music, geography, medicine, and technology.
The authors of the wildly popular Core Knowledge series for elementary school students bring the same expertise to preschool, teaching young children life and learning skills at the most critical point in their development.
E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum emphasizes "information" over "skills." This is a one-volume reference to fundamental knowledge in math, science, art, history, language arts, geography, and technology.
The "Core Knowledge" series helps children gain the fundamental knowledge they will need to make progress in school and be effective members of society. Specific knowledge in the subject areas of language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
The "Core Knowledge" series helps children gain the fundamental knowledge they will need in order to make progress in school and be effective members of society. Specific knowledge in the subject areas of language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
The author of the bestselling and much-discussed "Cultural Literacy" follows up with a reference book on just what he thinks children need to know. Includes information on such topics as mythology, religion, music, geography, medicine, and technology.
Responding to popular demand from educators and parents, this completely revised edition can help people instill in children a love for learning that will benefit them for a lifetime. Illustrations.
The Core Knowledge Series helps children gain the fundamental specific knowledge they will need to make progress in school and be effective in society. Subject areas include: language arts, fine arts, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.
This volume of the Core Knowledge Foundation was specifically created for parents and teachers to use with kindergarten-age children. It is based on E. D. Hirsch's realization that much of the decline in America's educational standards has occurred because vague "skills," not information, are taught in the primary grades, and, instead, his ...
This second edition offers the common core of knowledge children should learn in grade school. Inviting and informative, the book is organized by subject, including mythology, history, religion and philosophy, music, art, geography, medicine, technology, and many more. No other book gives children so much information about the world, from ancient ...
E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum emphasizes "information" over "skills." This is a one-volume reference to fundamental knowledge in math, science, art, history, language arts, geography and technology.
A companion volume to the "Core Knowledge Series" for first- through sixth-graders, this volume helps students find the books and other resources that will allow them to learn even more about their favorite subjects, organized by topics, including language arts, American civilization, world civilization, geography, music, visual arts and ...
Hirsch argues that in eschewing content-based curricula for abstract--and disproved--theories of cognitive development, the educational establishment has done irreparable harm to America's students, and instead of preparing them for the country's highly competitive information-based economy, the process-oriented curricula the establishment ...
E. D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum emphasizes "information" over "skills." This is a one-volume reference to fundamental knowledge in math, science, art, history, language arts, geography and technology.
Hirsch argues that in eschewing content-based curricula for abstract--and disproved--theories of cognitive development, the educational establishment has done irreparable harm to America's students, and instead of preparing them for the country's highly competitive information-based economy, the process-oriented curricula the establishment ...
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