Cultural Literacy

What Every American Needs to Know

• Author(s): Eric Donald Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James S. Trefil,
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Pages: 251
• ISBN_10: 039543095X
  ISBN_13: 9780395430958
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / General , Education / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects , Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... An argument for establishing a core curriculum of the basic information everyone needs to know, based on the author's hypothesis that being culturally literate is the foundation of intellectual competence.