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Author: Diane Zahler Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 074347578X Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 451
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A practical handbook for students and trivia buffs utilizes a host of multiple-choice questions to test readers' knowledge of American and world history, geography, science, art and architecture, music, literature, myth and religion, quotations, current events, and other topics. Reprint.
Author: Diane Zahler Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 074347578X Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 451
Book Description
A practical handbook for students and trivia buffs utilizes a host of multiple-choice questions to test readers' knowledge of American and world history, geography, science, art and architecture, music, literature, myth and religion, quotations, current events, and other topics. Reprint.
Author: Diane Zahler Publisher: ISBN: 9780139070150 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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A runaway smash hit in its first edition, this fascinating quiz book dared Americans to prove their knowledge of Western and global culture--and wound up a national bestseller. Now it's back to challenge and entertain a new crop of readers and to offer brand-new coverage of the key events and ideas that are reshaping today's world. Photographs and locator maps.
Author: E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0394758439 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 273
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A must-read for parents and teachers, this major bestseller reveals how cultural literacy is the hidden key to effective education and presents 5000 facts that every literate American should know. In this forceful manifesto Professor E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that children in the United States are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. They lack cultural literacy: a grasp of background information that writers and speakers assume their audience already has. Even if a student has a basic competence in the English language, he or she has little chance of entering the American mainstream without knowing what a silicon chip is, or when the Civil War was fought. An important work that has engendered a nationwide debate on our educational standards, Cultural Literacy is a required reading for anyone concerned with our future as a literate nation.
Author: Diane Zahler Publisher: Arco ISBN: 9780768912937 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 301
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Helps to build knowledge of world civilization and aspects of culture, including the arts and literature, while also preparing readers for such standardized tests as the SAT and the ACT.
Author: E. D. Hirsch Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0063001942 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 194
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“Profound, vital and correct. Hirsch highlights the essence of our American being and the radical changes in education necessary to sustain that essence. Concerned citizens, teachers, and parents take note! We ignore this book at our peril."— Joel Klein, former Chancellor of New York City Public Schools In this powerful manifesto, the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy addresses the failures of America’s early education system and its impact on our current national malaise, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum students everywhere can be taught—an educational foundation that can help improve and strengthen America’s unity, identity, and democracy. In How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began thirty years ago with his classic bestseller Cultural Literacy, urging America’s public schools, particularly at the elementary level, to educate our children more effectively to help heal and preserve the nation. Since the 1960s, our schools have been relying on “child-centered learning.” History, geography, science, civics, and other essential knowledge have been dumbed down by vacuous learning “techniques” and “values-based” curricula; indoctrinated by graduate schools of education, administrators and educators have believed they are teaching reading and critical thinking skills. Yet these cannot be taught in the absence of strong content, Hirsch argues. The consequence is a loss of shared knowledge that would enable us to work together, understand one another, and make coherent, informed decisions. A broken approach to school not only leaves our children under-prepared and erodes the American dream but also loosens the spiritual bonds and unity that hold the nation together. Drawing on early schoolmasters and educational reformers such as Noah Webster and Horace Mann, Hirsch charts the rise and fall of the American early education system and provides a blueprint for closing the national gap in knowledge, communications, and allegiance. Critical and compelling, How to Educate a Citizen galvanizes our schools to equip children with the power of shared knowledge.
Author: Eric Donald Hirsch Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 9780618226474 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 944
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Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.
Author: Mark Turner Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691227780 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 311
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The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the language arts, the Renaissance sense of scientific discovery, and the modern study of the mind, Mark Turner offers a vision of the central role that language and the arts of language can play in that adventure.
Author: Gladys Hunt Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0310548713 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 248
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Most teens already know what wealth and just-plain-fun books contain. What is sometimes missing is the encouragement to make time for reading in the middle of a busy life. Getting excited about books is contagious, and so is the reading habit. The whole family needs all the encouragement it can get, especially teenagers. Read for Your Life is more than inspiration to read. Gladys Hunt discusses how to read a book, what makes a good book, what questions to ask, and how to discern between good, better, and best. She has a way of making you want to read, while helping you to make the most of the opportunity. To help you choose what to read, Barbara Hampton has reviewed more than 300 books. Her recommendations run the gamut from classics like A Tale of Two Cities to contemporary fiction like A Ring of Endless Light; from literary greats like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Alan Paton to moderns like Katherine Paterson and Chaim Potok. The book contains - Pointers on becoming a more perceptive reader - Tips on how to enjoy poetry, fantasy, and fiction - An annotated list of over 300 book recommendations - Hundreds of plot synopses - A complete index to authors and titles.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1428926933 Category : Cross-cultural orientation Languages : en Pages : 150
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"Offers additional information on using the Culture Matters Workbook. The Guide includes approximately 40 exercises from Culture Matters, dealing with the most important concepts in the book, and presents them with extensive background, delivery notes, and lesson plans." Organized into four parts: Using Culture Matters in Pre-Service Training, Trainer Notes for Selected Exercises from Culture Matters, Supplemental Group Exercises, Additional Resources for Cross-Cultural Trainers
Author: Diane Zahler
Author: Diane Zahler
Author: Diane Zahler
Author: Diane Zahler
Author: E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Author: Diane Zahler
Author: E. D. Hirsch
Author: Eric Donald Hirsch
Author: Mark Turner
Author: Gladys Hunt
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