Knowledge at the Core
Don Hirsch, Core Knowledge, and the Future of the Common Core
de Steve Farkas, Robert Pondiscio, Sol Stern, Ruth Wattenberg, E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
"This slim volume has large aims. First, it seeks to pay tribute to the three decades of scholarship and service to American education of E. D. (Don) Hirsch, Jr., author of Cultural Literacy (and three other prescient books on education reform) and founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation. Second, it restates the case for a sequential, content-rich curriculum for America’s elementary and middle schools. Third, it strives to chart a course for the future, a future in which many more schools embrace Hirsch’s Core Knowledge program—or something akin to it—en route to successful attainment of the Common Core State Standards for English language arts/literacy and mathematics."