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Hirsch, Eric Donald Jr.(E. D. Hirsch Jr.)
Born: 1928 AD
Currently alive, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
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Currently alive, at 81 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: None
US educator and educational reform advocate
founded Core Knowledge Foundation 1986
wrote "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs To Know" 1987, "The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them" 1996, co-wrote "A Dictionary of Cultural Literacy" 1988
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- "We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse."
