Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hirsch's villain is Educational Philosopher John Dewey, who, in his landmark 1915 treatise Schools of Tomorrow, espoused the learning of skills rather than information. The long-range result, says Hirsch, is that children can now decode words but lack the understanding to put what they read into broad, insightful...
Along with quarrels on ideology, perhaps the most intense objections to Bloom's and Hirsch's doctrines come from educators who feel that many of the ideas are out of touch with countrywide classroom realities. Says Ralph Cusick, principal of Chicago's 3,900-pupil, predominantly Hispanic Schurz High School...
Again this summer, TIME's nine-week intern program, now in its eleventh year, is giving senior-bound college students a chance to get hands-on experience at a major news organization, and a rare glimpse of how TIME is put together. "It's fun knowing what will get into...
For all the danger, people still want to own seafront property. And why not? They are still protected -- and encouraged -- by knowing that they can write off storm damage on their taxes.* In many cases, they can depend on federal flood insurance for at least partial reimbursement in case of...
Terra has voiced distress that kids come out of high school knowing more about Cezanne than Samuel Morse. But so what? One is fundamental in a way that the other is not. People should know about both, ideally; but they should know more about Cezanne. Certainly there is a need...