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Book Review

Why knowledge matters: Rescuing our children from failed educational theories,

by E. D. Hirsch, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Education Press, 2016, 269 pp., $29.50 (paperback), ISBN-13: 978-1-61-250952-5

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  • National Society for the Study of Education (1976). The Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education (p. 296). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • National Assessment of Educational Progress. (2017). The Nation's Report Card: Summary of major findings. Retrieved from https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/ltt_2012/summary.aspx .
  • See, B. H., Gorard, S., & Siddiqui, N. (2017). Can explicit teaching of knowledge improve reading attainment? An evaluation of the Core Knowledge curriculum. British Educational Research Journal, 43, 372–393. doi:10.1002/berj.3278

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