{"product_id":"the-schools-we-need-e-d-hirsch-9780385495240","title":"The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them","description":"This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educators, and author of the bestselling \u003cb\u003eCultural Literacy\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning \"process\" should be emphasized over the facts taught. All of this is tragically wrong. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRenowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that, by disdaining content-based curricula while favoring abstract--and discredited--theories of how a child learns, the ideas uniformly taught by our schools have done terrible harm to America's students. Instead of preparing our children for the highly competitive, information-based economy in which we now live, our schools' practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith an introduction that surveys developments in education since the hardcover edition was published, \u003cb\u003eThe Schools We Need\u003c\/b\u003e is a passionate and thoughtful book that will appeal to the millions of people who can't understand why America's schools aren't educating our children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e E. D. Hirsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0385495242\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780385495240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anchor Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/17\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.14h x 6.15w x 0.76d","brand":"E. D. Hirsch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980915933439,"sku":"9780385495240","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b291b35-1368-49b6-8492-a92c0cb497fd.jpg?v=1683252635","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-schools-we-need-e-d-hirsch-9780385495240","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}