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

The Knowledge Deficit illuminates the real issue in education today -- without an effective curriculum, American students are losing the global education race. In this persuasive book, the esteemed education critic, activist, and best-selling author E.D. Hirsch, Jr., shows that although schools are teaching the mechanics of reading, they fail to convey the knowledge needed for the more complex and essential skill of reading comprehension. Hirsch corrects popular misconceptions about hot issues in education, such as standardized testing, and takes to task educators' claims that they are powerless to overcome class differences. Ultimately, this essential book gives parents and teachers specific tools for enhancing children's abilities to fully understand what they read.

• Why Knowledge Matters: Rescuing Our Children from Failed Educational Theories
• The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them
• Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
• Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition
• Research on Educational Innovations
• Move Your Bus: An Extraordinary New Approach to Accelerating Success in Work and Life
• Visible Learning
• Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching and Learning
• What Works in Schools: Translating Research into Action