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    (By E.D. Hirsch Jr.)

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    Author E.D. Hirsch Jr.
    “Book Descriptions: An argument for establishing a core curriculum of the basic information everyone needs to know, based on the author's hypothesis that being culturally literate is the foundation of intellectual competence.
    Acknowledgments
    Preface
    Literacy & cultural literacy
    The discovery of the schema
    National language & national culture
    American diversity & public discourse
    Cultural literacy & the schools
    The practical outlook
    Appendix: what literate Americans know
    Notes
    Index”

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