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ERIC Number: EJ620798
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-189X
Book Reviews: Educational Manifestos and the New Fundamentalism.
Feinberg, Walter
Educational Researcher, v26 n8 p27-35 Nov 1997
Critiques Hirsh's book, "The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them," which suggests that progressive education is rampant in today's school, and all students should learn important subject matter content that should be appropriately sequenced and uniformly paced, with achievement objectively measured. Critiques Hirsh's minimization of the importance of any educational method, calling his book an educational manifesto. (SM)
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Minority Group Children, Poverty, Progressive Education, Public Education
Publication Type: Book/Product Reviews; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Subject Content Knowledge