Catching The WAVE Of Knowledge-based Education Reform — The GOOD NEWS (Part II)
Links from “Knowledge Matters: Why is the Core Knowledge Curriculum Experiencing a Revival? Sept 21, 2015 by Paul W. Bennett:
1 http://www.bbc.com/news/education-20041597 Cultural literacy: Michael Gove's school of hard facts By Fran Abrams, BBC Education & Family Section, 25 October 2012 [Hirsch effect on Gove, former UK Ed Sec]
2 http://policyexchange.org.uk/publications/category/item/knowledge-and-the-curriculum-a-collection-of-essays-to-accompany-e-d-hirsch-s-lecture-at-policy-exchange Knowledge & the Curriculum: A Collection of essays to accompany E D Hirsch lecture at Policy Exchange, 17 Sept’15, 83pg
3 http://www.amazon.com/The-Schools-We-Need-Dont/dp/0385495242 34 customer reviews. For over 50 years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural . . . teachers don’t need to know the subjects . . . All this is tragically wrong”. [The 1999 PB issue is worth the extra 2pg intro, reporting progress over last 3 yrs from the ’96 issue.]
4 https://thewingtoheaven.wordpress.com/2015/09/19/certain-things-then-follow-from-that-notes-on-ed-hirschs-policy-exchange-lecture/ “Certain things then follow from that”: Notes on ED Hirsch’s Policy Exchange lecture [Another link here provides further links of reports from Hirsch talk https://arollerintheocean.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/e-d-hirsch-comes-to-england-collections-of-blogs/ including link to transcript AND voice recording of Hirsch.]
5 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/michael-gove-speaks-about-the-future-of-education-reform Michael Gove speaks about the future of education reform July 10, 2014
6 egalitarian concept as noted in link #4 above, Daisy’s report. [Note: Hirsch, in his book (pg7) denies that his educational standpoint is either “traditional” or “progressive”. He says: “It is pragmatic.”]
7 link to #5 above, relating to the state of Massachusetts having adopted the core knowledge curriculum, topping achievement scores and called the Massachusetts Miracle.
8 http://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/Hirsch.pdf Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge— of Words and the World Scientific Insights into the Fourth-Grade Slump and the Nation’s Stagnant Comprehension Scores, E D Hirsch, 2003, 14 pg
9 link to #5 above relating to 1993 Education Reform Act
10 http://www.city-journal.org/2013/eon1206ss.html The Redemption of E. D. Hirsch How my kids’ progressive school helped teach me the value of a content-rich curriculum, Dec’13, Sol Stern, 6pg [reading Hirsch showed how progressive fads “did more harm than good” . . . most devastating consequence of these doctrines was that they widened, rather than reduced, the gap in intellectual capital between middle-class children and those from disadvantaged families.”]
11 http://marymyatt.com/blog/2015-09-19/the-hirsch-effect The Hirsch Effect, Mary Myatt report from the Hirsch lecture, Sept’15. [1 pg, 4 more links]
[published in Educhatter https://educhatter.wordpress.com/2015/09/21/knowledge-matters-why-is-the-content-lite-curriculum-in-retreat/]
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