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Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Additional Resources E.D. Hirsch, Jr.: Literacy and Cultural Literacy by Marijana Ljutic


Marijana Ljutic
Professor King
Historical;, Philosophical, Multicultural Foundations
UEGE-5102-002
April 29, 2008

Additional Sources on E.D. Hirsch, Jr.: Literacy and Cultural Literacy

A Brief Summary of My Presentation:

The presentation on E.D. Hirsch, Jr. titled Literacy and Cultural Literacy dealt

with the crisis in the educational system in the United States. Cultural literacy of

American students is declining compared to other nations. The school systems within this

nation are not teaching students the core information which they are lacking an

understanding of. Schools are instead overloading students with too many options in the

curricula that no two students attending the same high school, for example, could be

taking completely different courses. There is no common curriculum that all students are

required to take which would help ensure that all students have a core background of

information. In order for schools in the United States to improve its standard of education

schools need to establish a core information which all students need to have. If students

have not learned and mastered basic knowledge then it is difficult to understand more

complex material.

Additional Sources On Cultural Literacy:

Denny, Kevin 2002. New Methods for Comparing Literacy across Populations: Insights
From the Measurement of Poverty. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series
A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 165, No. 3 (2002), pp. 481-493 Published by:
Blackwell Publishing for the Royal Statistical Society Retrieved April 29, 2008.
http://www.jstor.org.avoserv.library.fordham.edu/action/showArticle?doi=10.2307/3559699&Search=yes&term=literacy&term=cultural&item=3&returnArticleService=showArticle&ttl=34188&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dcultural%2Bliteracy%26x%3D23%26y%3D11

Ljutic 2

Kantrowitz, Barbara (1992, November). What Kids Need to
Know. Newsweek, 120(18), 80. Retrieved April 29, 2008, from Research
Library database. (Document ID: 5605825). http://proquest.umi.com.avoserv.library.fordham.edu/pqdweb?index=7&did=5605825&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1209513063&clientId=9148

St John-Brooks, Caroline (1990, April). Trivial pursuit or essential information? The
Times Educational Supplement,(3850), 11. Retrieved April 29, 2008, from

Research Library database. (Document ID: 8880238).
http://proquest.umi.com.avoserv.library.fordham.edu/pqdweb?index=11&did=8880238&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1209513216&clientId=9148

The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American
Children. (2006, February). Publishers Weekly, 253(7), 79. Retrieved April 29, 2008, from Research Library database. (Document ID: 988995841). http://proquest.umi.com.avoserv.library.fordham.edu/pqdweb?index=0&did=988995841&SrchMode=1&sid=3&Fmt=3&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1209512937&clientId=9148

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