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E. D. Hirsch

Literature

#608

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#1494

Historical Rank

#298

USA Rank

Literary Criticism

#58

World Rank

#100

Historical Rank

#23

USA Rank

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E. D. Hirsch's Degrees

Bachelors English Literature Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Eric "E. D." Donald Hirsch Jr. is an American educator, literary critic, and theorist of education. He is professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Virginia. Hirsch is best known for his 1987 book Cultural Literacy, which was a national best-seller and a catalyst for the standards movement in American education. Cultural Literacy included a list of approximately 5,000 "names, phrases, dates, and concepts every American should know" in order to be "culturally literate." Hirsch's arguments for cultural literacy and the contents of the list were controversial and widely debated in the late 1980s and early '90s.

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E. D. Hirsch's Published Works

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The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them (1996) (548)
Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge— of Words and the World Scientific Insights into the Fourth-Grade Slump and the Nation's Stagnant Comprehension Scores (2003) (438)
Review of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (2009) (247)
The Philosophy of Composition (1979) (218)
The new dictionary of cultural literacy (2002) (196)
The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children (2006) (147)
The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (1988) (135)
The Schools We Need. (1998) (119)
Overcoming the Language Gap. (2001) (59)
Meaning and Significance Reinterpreted (1984) (41)
The Core Knowledge Curriculum--What's behind Its Success?. (1993) (39)
A first dictionary of cultural literacy : what our children need to know (1989) (31)
What Your First Grader Needs to Know : Fundamentals of a Good First-Grade Education (1991) (29)
Reality's Revenge: Research and Ideology. (1998) (25)
Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories (2016) (20)
Culture and Literacy. (1980) (20)
Three Dimensions of Hermeneutics (1972) (19)
Americanization and the Schools. (1999) (18)
The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools (2009) (18)
What Your Second Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Second Grade Education (1991) (18)
Classroom Research and Cargo Cults. (2002) (16)
Beyond Comprehension We Have Yet to Adopt a Common Core Curriculum That Builds Knowledge Grade by Grade—But We Need To (2011) (13)
Stylistics and Synonymity (1975) (13)
Innocence and experience: An introduction to Blake (1964) (12)
"Cultural Literacy" Doesn't Mean "Core Curriculum.". (1985) (12)
Wordsworth And Schelling: A Typological Study of Romanticism (1971) (12)
Transhistorical Intentions and the Persistence of Allegory (1994) (12)
Seeking Both Breadth and Depth in the Curriculum. (2001) (11)
Restoring Cultural Literacy in the Early Grades. (1988) (11)
What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know: Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning (1996) (11)
Romancing the Child. (2001) (9)
Teaching Content Is Teaching Reading. (2010) (8)
Rorty and the Priority of Democracy to Philosophy (2008) (8)
Cultural Literacy Does Not Mean a List of Works. (1986) (7)
Cultural Literacy: Let's Get Specific. (1988) (7)
What’s at stake in the K-12 standards wars: A primer for policy makers (2000) (5)
Fairness and Core Knowledge. (1991) (5)
Past Intentions and Present Meanings (1983) (4)
Why Content Is King. (2013) (4)
Toward a Centrist Curriculum: Two Kinds of Multiculturalism in Elementary School. (1992) (4)
On Theories and Metaphors: A Comment on Mary Hesse's Paper (1985) (4)
Value and Knowledge in the Humanities. (1970) (4)
Using Tests Productively. (2007) (4)
The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Your Child Needs to Know (2004) (4)
Wordsworth and Schelling (1961) (3)
Legal Rhetoric and Cultural Critique: Notes toward Guerrilla Writing@@@Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know@@@A Guide to Critical Legal Studies@@@Interpreting Law and Literature: A Hermeneutic Reader@@@Zoot Suit (1990) (3)
Books to Build On: A Grade-By-Grade Resource Guide for Parents and Teachers (2009) (3)
There's No Such Thing as a Reading Test. (2011) (3)
The Paradox of Traditional Literacy: Response to Tchudi. (1988) (3)
Adequacy beyond Dollars: The Productive Use of School Time (2006) (3)
In Defense of Educators: The Problem of Idea Quality, Not "Teacher Quality". (2017) (3)
From Model to Policy (1989) (2)
Literary Evaluation as Knowledge (1968) (2)
Privileged Criteria in Literary Evaluation [1969] (1977) (2)
Primer on Success: Character and Knowledge Make the Difference (2013) (2)
Why Do We Have a Knowledge Deficit? Policy Perspectives. (2008) (2)
Coming with Terms to Meaning (1986) (2)
Reflections on Cultural Literacy and Arts Education. (1990) (2)
Neglecting the Early Grades (2003) (1)
Hirsch Responds: The Best Answer to a Caricature Is a Practical Program. (1988) (1)
Education Reform and Content: The Long View (2005) (1)
Opposing Approaches So Johnny Can Read Finding the Answers in Drills and Rigor (2002) (1)
Mental fight: A presciption for K-12 (2005) (1)
Response to Professor Feinberg. (1998) (1)
Remarks on Composition to the Yale English Department. (1979) (1)
Thinking about Writing: E. D. Hirsch's Philosophy of Composition@@@The Philosophy of Composition (1980) (1)
What Your Preschooler Needs to Know: Read-Alouds to Get Ready for Kindergarten (2008) (1)
The Benefit to Equity. (2002) (0)
Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature. M.H. Abrams. (1972) (0)
Ifty-eight Years Ago When I Was in Ninth Grade, I At- Tended a Progressive School in New Orleans Called Metairie Park Country Day School. If You Saw the Movie (2000) (0)
Can the Question (2009) (0)
THE TWO BLAKES (1961) (0)
Book Reviews: Response to Professor Feinberg (1998) (0)
Fundamentals : cultural literacy for students (1997) (0)
Response (2009) (0)
Against Theory? (1983) (0)
A Reply to "Cultural Literacy: Another View from the University of Virginia" (1989) (0)

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