Beschreibung:
Challenges E D Hirsch's assumptions about culture and education. Calling for a broader and more democratic vision than Hirsch, the author critiques Hirsch's legacy up through the conservative educational agenda for education, which, he argues, denies, not only the United States' diversity, but its democratic traditions of democratic participation.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Cultural Literacy and the Loss of Democratic Dialogue; Chapter 2 What Literate Americans Ought to Know-A Preliminary List;