[Youth-list] Knowledge Deficit and the Fourth-Grade (Reading) Slump

[Elizabeth Shack]

"The knowledge deficit is a failure of social justice (and) the consequence of good intentions serving inadequate ideas...What students and teachers need is a revolution in ideas...We must encourage curricula oriented to knowledge..."
   
   
  "Why Do We Have a Knowledge Deficit?" by E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
  a free publication available from WestEd:  http://www.wested.org/cs/we/query/q/1533
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