The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

by E. D. Hirsch

Publisher:

Mariner Books

, 2024

Overview

The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and essential skill of reading comprehension. Hirsch corrects popular misconceptions about hot issues in education, such as standardized testing, and takes to task educators' claims that they are powerless to overcome class differences. Ultimately, this essential book gives parents and teachers specific tools for enhancing children's abilities to fully understand what they read.

Product Details

• Title: The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
• Author: E. D. Hirsch
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 192
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780547346960, 9780618872251, 0618872256, 0547346964
• Resource ID: LLS:9780547346960
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T13:39:13Z

About E. D. Hirsch

Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published nine books of poems and five books of prose. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.