John Holdren Core Knowledge Foundation E. D., Jr. Hirsch
This invaluable grade-by-grade guide (K-6th) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. It will lead you to enriching reading experiences and help your child build on the fundamentals in the popular Core Knowledge Series (What Your Kindergartner-Sixth Grader Needs to Know). Rare among resources guides in its emphasis on nonfiction, Books to Build On provides helpful annotations on excellent books in a wide range of subject areas.
This invaluable grade-by-grade guide (K-6th) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. It will lead you to ...
This completely revised and attractively redesigned edition of one of the most popular volumes in the bestselling Core Knowledge Series features up-to-date ideas and information based on input from parents and teachers across the country. With sixteen pages of full-color illustrations, a bolder, easier-to-follow format, and a thoroughly updated curriculum, What Your Fifth Grader Needs to Know, Revised Edition, reflects the Core Knowledge Foundation s ongoing commitment to providing a solid educational foundation for today s elementary school students. What...
This completely revised and attractively redesigned edition of one of the most popular volumes in the bestselling Core Knowledge Series features up...
In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a source that concisely sums up the knowledge that matters to Americans -- the people, places, ideas, and events that shape our cultural conversation. With more than six thousand entries, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy is that invaluable source. Wireless technology. Gene therapy. NAFTA. In addition to the thousands of terms described in the original Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, here are more than five hundred new entries to bring...
In this fast-paced information age, how can Americans know what's really important and what's just a passing fashion? Now more than ever, we need a so...
E. D., Jr. Hirsch William G. Rowland Michael Stanford
Fully updated for the twenty-first century, The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy lists essential facts in twenty-one subject areas to promote successful learning in kids.
Child education expert E. D. Hirsch Jr. cuts through the wealth of information available today to highlight terms that a child should be familiar with by the end of sixth grade. With nearly 3,000 concise definitions and including 250 new entries (like Harry Potter, centaurs, northern lights, and World Series), this popular sourcebook makes it easy for children to become literate in...
Fully updated for the twenty-first century, The New First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy lists essential facts in twenty-one subject are...
An insightful thinker on what schools teach shows why American students are losing the global education race and performing worse than students in other industrialized countries.
An insightful thinker on what schools teach shows why American students are losing the global education race and performing worse than students in oth...
Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work and role marginalized as insignificant despite compelling evidence to the contrary. This enlightening discussion of the misperceptions about the profession offers a thoughtful perspective on the real work done by educators and examines some of the harm done by efforts to "fix" what is wrong. There is not a group of professionals in the work world who must bear as many demands, yet who are so often undervalued as educators. Norris calls attention...
Pressured by a society searching for a simple solution to a complex problem, educators are constantly subjected to a double standard and their work an...
