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title: "The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children"
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# The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

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## Customer Reviews

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    Clear headed analysis of what it takes to read well
  

*by B***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2012*

Hirsch lays out a lot of research to build his claim that American reading skills suffer, especially at the low end, because local control of the curriculum is tantamount to no control.Mechanical reading skills and reading strategies, while necessary at times, do not advance the ball when it comes developing a deep understanding of complex content. We need to think seriously about what the common cannon of understanding should be in each grade so students aren't reading random unrelated content that leaves many out in the cold.The metaphor I liked compared choosing a systematic series of K-12 reading topics to deciding whether to drive on the right, or left side, of the road. Either traffic system works, but each country has to choose one or the other so its citizens know how to drive with each other on busy streets. Likewise we have to decide which grade to teach the Mayflower. It doesn't matter if it's 1st grade, 2nd grade or 8th grade it can be taught well at every grade. But it shouldn't be taught by one teacher in 1st the next in 2nd and so forth boring the students who have read about it before and displacing content that they haven't encountered. The lack of a system hurts mobile students from low SES backgrounds the most, Hirsch says, leaving them so they can't understand what their fellow citizens are writing or saying.

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    Educators take heed
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2010*

This is the type of information students training to be teachers should be getting.  The Liberal Arts philosophy of education makes so much sense and is sorely needed in public schools today.Forget about political correctness.  What is the greater value of an education?  Education is much more than just preparing someone to get a job.  It is about becoming a well rounded person.Today's emphasis on multiculturalism is reaction to years of indoctrination in a system that devalues the individual.  The failure of public education is: compromising knowledge for the sake of political correctness.  This is the "knowledge deficit."The concept of core knowledge sets standards that are vital to a well balanced education.  Commonality of knowledge bonds individuals from diverse backgrounds.  Instead of having multiple cultures vying for attention, Core Knowledge enables individuals from different backgrounds to learn the universal language of knowledge.  Having a common understanding brings people together; not "celebrating their differences."  After experiencing the mutual benefit of "Core Knowledge" individuals can better appreciate other cultures and nurture their natural curiosity about the world around them.  This is truly the foundation for mutual respect among people and lifelong learning.

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    I'm still not sure how this gap is going to be closed!
  

*by F***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 19, 2011*

First of all, it's important for you to know that I had to read this for a class. That being said...The first chapter was great! It really grabbed my attention and I thought "Wow, for an educational book, this one is going to be pretty amazing!". That was short lived unfortunately. The beginning of each subsequent chapter grabbed me but after the first paragraph, the information became repetitive. Towards the end, the last few chapters were repetitive on the previous ones.There were others in my class who thought this book was fantastic. I just didn't feel it like they did. I *wanted* to like this book but I don't do repetition well (except for in writing this review about how repetitious this book is!)I'm disappointed that I still have a knowledge gap when it comes to closing education gaps in American Children. I believe my professor might as well.

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