James S. Trefil

Eric Donald Hirsch

Joseph F. Kett

Argues that American children are deprived of cultural literacy

What Every American Needs to Know

Cultural Literacy

A resource book that presents the knowledge that should be learned in the fifth grade as identified by the Core Knowledge Foundation, and includes math, language arts, science, history, geography, art, and technology.

Fundamentals of a Good Fifth-grade Education

What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know

Defines the people, places, sayings, and ideas representing essential information for literate Americans

The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

John Holdren

Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of math, science, art, history, language, geography, and knowledge

Preparing Your Child for a Lifetime of Learning

What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know

Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

Offers a plan for reforming American education by emphasizing the teaching of facts and skills rather than the "hands-off" encouragement of independent learning

The Schools We Need and why We Don't Have Them

An Introduction to Blake

Innocence and Experience

Souzanne A. Wright

Grade one

Core Knowledge

Core Knowledge Teacher Handbook, Grade 3

Core Knowledge Teacher Handbook, Grade 5

In this comprehensive and thought-provoking book, educational theorist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. offers a masterful analysis of how American ideas about education have veered off course, what we must do to right them, and most importantly why. He argues that the core problem with American education is that educational theorists, especially in the early grades, have for the past sixty years rejected academic content in favor of "child-centered" and "how-to" learning theories that are at odds with how children really learn. The result is failing schools and widening inequality, as only children from content-rich (usually better-off) homes can take advantage of the schools' educational methods.

Democracy and Our Schools

The Making of Americans

What will your child be expected to learn in Year 3? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these important questions and more, offering the specific and shared knowledge that hundreds of parents and teachers have agreed on for Year 3 children. Designed for parents, teachers and home educators to use with children, this third volume in the Core Knowledge UK series presents the knowledge and skills that should be at the core of a challenging Year 3 education.

What Your Year 3 Child Needs to Know

Describes what a child should know at the first-grade level in subjects ranging from nursery rhymes to math and science

Fundamentals of a Good First-grade Education

What Your First Grader Needs to Know

"A revised and updated version of What your [second] grader needs to know, fundamentals of a good second-grade education, with readings and activities in literature, mathematics, history, science, and the arts"--

Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education

What Your Second Grader Needs to Know

A national bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no literate American should be without. Now in this newly revised and updated edition, the authors provide a comprehensive look at cultural literacy for the nineties. New entries reflect suggestions from hundreds of readers. The dictionary takes into account the growing consensus over the specifics of multiculturalism, the political and geographic changes in the world, and the new ideas and terms that flow constantly from scientific research and technological development. Twenty-three sections, each alphabetically arranged, cover every major area of knowledge. Within each section, hundreds of individual entries identify ideas, events, and individuals, explaining their significance in our culture and placing them in context. More than 250 maps, charts, and illustrations provide information that cannot be conveyed by words alone. A complete index enables quick reference to any topic. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy challenges us to find out more about what we know and helps us make sense of what we read, hear, and learn. It is a "must have" book for every home.

Shows parents what their sixth grader needs to know in order to gain the fundamentals he or she needs to make progress in school and be effective in society, offering practical suggestions and curriculum recommendations that cover such areas as music, literature, history and geography, the visual arts, mathematics, and science.

Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-grade Education

What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know

William G. Rowland

Michael Stanford

Provides an outline of the knowledge that should be acquired by the end of sixth grade in twenty-one subject areas.

Eric Donald Hirsch

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