
Why Knowledge Matters
Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
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BJ Harrison
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E. D. Hirsch Jr.
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E. D. Hirsch, author of The Knowledge Deficit, draws on recent findings in neuroscience and data from France to provide new evidence for the argument that a carefully planned, knowledge-based elementary curriculum is essential to providing the foundations for children's life success and ensuring equal opportunity for students of all backgrounds. In the absence of a clear, common curriculum, Hirsch contends that tests are reduced to measuring skills rather than content, and that students from disadvantaged backgrounds cannot develop the knowledge base to support high achievement. Hirsch advocates for updated policies based on a set of ideas that are consistent with current cognitive science, developmental psychology, and social science.
The book focuses on six persistent problems of recent US education: the over-testing of students; the scapegoating of teachers; the fadeout of preschool gains; the narrowing of the curriculum; the continued achievement gap between demographic groups; and the reliance on standards that are not linked to a rigorous curriculum.
Why Knowledge Matters introduces a new generation of American educators to Hirsch's astute and passionate analysis.
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Finally, someone says what needs to be said about education
- De Brandon B. en 05-17-18
De: Bryan Caplan
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Higher Education in America
- De: Derek Bok
- Narrado por: Steven Cooper
- Duración: 18 h y 5 m
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Higher Education in America is a landmark work - a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the current condition of our colleges and universities from former Harvard president Derek Bok, one of the nation's most-respected education experts. Sweepingly ambitious in scope, this is a deeply informed and balanced assessment of the many strengths as well as the weaknesses of American higher education today.
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Long but not deep
- De ProfGolf en 05-13-16
De: Derek Bok
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The End of Average
- How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness
- De: Todd Rose
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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Are you above average? Is your child an A student? Is your employee an introvert or an extrovert? Every day we are measured against the yardstick of averages, judged according to how close we come to it or how far we deviate from it. The assumption that metrics comparing us to an average—like GPAs, personality test results, and performance review ratings—reveal something meaningful about our potential is so ingrained in our consciousness that we don't even question it. That assumption, says Harvard's Todd Rose, is spectacularly—and scientifically—wrong.
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Good intentions, terrible execution
- De Kristofer Jarl en 05-06-19
De: Todd Rose
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Limitless Mind
- Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers
- De: Jo Boaler
- Narrado por: Jo Boaler
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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In this revolutionary book, a professor of education at Stanford University and acclaimed math educator who has spent decades studying the impact of beliefs and bias on education, reveals the six keys to unlocking learning potential, based on the latest scientific findings.
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- De Oliver Nielsen en 05-02-20
De: Jo Boaler
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The Genetic Lottery
- Why DNA Matters for Social Equality
- De: Kathryn Paige Harden
- Narrado por: Katherine Fenton
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
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In The Genetic Lottery, Harden introduces listeners to the latest genetic science, dismantling dangerous ideas about racial superiority and challenging us to grapple with what equality really means in a world where people are born different. Weaving together personal stories with scientific evidence, Harden shows why our refusal to recognize the power of DNA perpetuates the myth of meritocracy, and argues that we must acknowledge the role of genetic luck if we are ever to create a fair society.
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Mix of Genetic Science and Ideology
- De James en 10-12-21
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Choice Words
- How Our Language Affects Children's Learning
- De: Peter H. Johnston
- Narrado por: Peter H. Johnston
- Duración: 3 h y 1 m
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In productive classrooms, teachers don't just teach children skills, they build emotionally and relationally healthy learning communities. Teachers create intellectual environments that produce not only technically competent students, but also caring, secure, actively literate human beings.
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Check it out at the library or don't
- De Lesley en 04-01-12
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Excellent Sheep
- The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
- De: William Deresiewicz
- Narrado por: Mel Foster
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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Excellent Sheep takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications Deresiewicz saw firsthand as a member of Yale's admissions committee. As schools shift focus from the humanities to "practical" subjects like economics and computer science, students are losing the ability to think in innovative ways.
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skip the book read the essay
- De Amazon Customer en 05-07-15
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Experience and Education
- De: John Dewey
- Narrado por: Gary L Willprecht
- Duración: 2 h y 28 m
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Experience and Education is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written more than two decades after Democracy and Education (Dewey's most comprehensive statement of his position in educational philosophy), this book demonstrates how Dewey reformulated his ideas....
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Great book, but too dense for audio version.
- De Jonathan Homrighausen en 08-06-13
De: John Dewey
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Gifts Differing
- Understanding Personality Type
- De: Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers - with
- Narrado por: Patricia Rodriguez
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Like a thumbprint, personality type provides an instant snapshot of a person's uniqueness. Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this audiobook distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success in school, at a job, in a career, and in your personal relationships.
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half/half
- De Lillianne en 03-19-19
De: Isabel Briggs Myers, y otros
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Losing Ground
- American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
- De: Charles Murray
- Narrado por: Robert Morris
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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Beginning in the 1950s, America entered a period of unprecedented social reform. This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended and perverse effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, ignorance, and discrimination. Using widely understood and accepted data, it conclusively demonstrates that the amalgam of reforms from 1965 to 1970 actually made matters worse.
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A great book ruined by a terrible recording
- De Michael en 04-05-13
De: Charles Murray
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The Schools We Need
- De: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
- Narrado por: Anna Fields
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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A child's mind is hungry for knowledge, stimulation, the excitement of learning which school should provide, yet most American schools fall far short. From kindergarten through high school, our public educational system is among the worst in the developed world.
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Overwhelming condescension
- De cmurray en 06-09-18
De: E.D. Hirsch Jr.
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How to Educate a Citizen
- The Power of Shared Knowledge to Unify a Nation
- De: E. D. Hirsch
- Narrado por: Rob Shapiro
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In How to Educate a Citizen, E.D. Hirsch continues the conversation he began 30 years ago with his classic best seller 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.
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Practice in Reserving Judgement
- De Audrey en 01-12-24
De: E. D. Hirsch
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The Knowledge Gap
- The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it
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- Narrado por: Natalie Wexler
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In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system - one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware.
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Thoughts on The Knowledge Gap
- De cchamberalain en 02-28-20
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Cultural Literacy
- What Every American Needs to Know
- De: E. D. Hirsch, James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett
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In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the US are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know.
De: E. D. Hirsch, y otros
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition)
- A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
- De: Daniel T. Willingham
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition) features 25 percent updated material while still honoring the classic, beloved approaches of the original. The second edition will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn and reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.
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Useful information
- De Grisit Prueksaritanond en 02-05-25
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- De: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Learning To Read & Write
- De Sara en 02-17-15
De: Maryanne Wolf
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- De: E. D. Hirsch
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Practice in Reserving Judgement
- De Audrey en 01-12-24
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In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system - one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware.
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In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the US are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know.
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition)
- A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
- De: Daniel T. Willingham
- Narrado por: Jim Seybert
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
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Why Don't Students Like School? (2nd Edition) features 25 percent updated material while still honoring the classic, beloved approaches of the original. The second edition will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn and reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.
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Useful information
- De Grisit Prueksaritanond en 02-05-25
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- De: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter
- Duración: 8 h y 21 m
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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- 03-07-25
An alternative to progressive failure
Very interesting. Knowledge based curriculum instead of skills based. Recommend Britains Strictest Headmistress about the Michaela school.
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- Jonathan Swan
- 12-10-24
Outstanding
Hirsch provides an outstanding analysis of progressive education and its failures, despite being propagated with religious fever in Americans education schools. In its place, he argues that schools need to return to knowledge-based learning, the effects of which will be higher learning outcomes, increased equality of opportunity, narrowing of performance gaps between the affluent and impoverished populations, and greater national cohesion. While those who have worked and experienced these schools understand the superiority of knowledge-based learning, Hirsch explains why this observation accurately interprets reality.
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- Jason
- 09-06-21
Thought provoking and challenging
I am a special education teacher and struggle to reach children who have what my principal once called a “slippery brain.” It felt like we taught the same lesson every day and the information never “stuck.” We started from scratch day after day. E.D. Herschel Jr. opened my eyes to a new (yet old) approach to teaching my students.
I call myself an “accidental teacher” because my first degree was in psychology. When I moved from the mental health world to the public school system, I struggled with an education system that conflicted with cognitive and developmental psychology. While I cannot change the current trend of educational philosophy, I now feel better equipped to alter my district’s curriculum to meet the needs of my students. I have let go of the pressure to teach every child an individualized set of skills, but now strive to create a common classroom vocabulary based on a common set of language goals.
I encourage any educator who feels overwhelmed and overworked to read this book. We can break the SpEd to prison pipeline. We don’t have to teach in ways that are counterintuitive to our own experience. We don’t have to work ever-increasing hours without compensation. You will be challenged and forced to rethink everything your educational college taught you. And, in turn, you will become a more passionate, more effective teacher.
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- Andrea
- 12-24-22
A Must Read for Every Educator and Administrator
This is an accessible, thorough, look into the educational theories that shape practice in America and abroad, and how those Romantic ideas have demonstrably disintegrated curriculum, thereby withholding the knowledge students need to be literate, successful citizens.
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- Matt Hutson
- 09-15-23
Great for ELA Teachers
I'm an English teacher here in Surabaya and I thought that listening to this book was very useful for my classes. However, for an average teacher, I believe that the book goes into depth for curriculum heads and principals. It's a worthy read for any educator.
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- Nathan Parker
- 09-16-21
Useful update of his 1995 book
E. D. Hirsch's 1995 book "The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have them" told a compelling story about the US education system's fall from grace and the philosophical underpinnings of why it occurred. After fifteen years, it was time for an update and this was that book. I found this one a less cohesive narrative and a reader who hadn't read the 1995 book might be somewhat confused by the themes in this one. Which somehow supports the author's main point: background knowledge has a strong effect on reading comprehension.
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