Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, justifies his imposition of a cultural curriculum on all Americans by staking a populist claim to universal education and patriotism. To Hirsch, it is not enough that all children learn how to read; he believes true functional literacy requires a particular back-ground of factual information, which he proceeds to outline in his 600-page, 23-chapter tome. Despite his protestations against labels of academic elitism, however, his arguments are hardly geared to the masses...
HIRSCH'S argument, a summary of the educational philosophy he espoused in his previous best-seller, Cultural Literacy, centers on the idea that common knowledge eases communication and creates a national culture. The dictionary catalogues this particular information, excluding whatever Hirsch considers too specialized, generalized, regional or transient. He claims that widespread study of this body of knowledge can reverse the American educational decline. Apparently, meager teacher's salaries, budget cuts in public schooling, drugs and escalating drop-out rates are merely secondary causes of this decline. If teachers promised to pepper their lectures with proverbs, Biblical references and other...
Even with these restrictions, teams at Harvard are able to compete successfully with teams free of rigid academic requirements. Harvard's women's teams in particular are able to give teams outside the Ivy League a solid test, according to Delaney Smith...
...People are angry, people want a full explanation of what happened," said Suarez, who also expressed particular concern about the damage to Miami's image less than a week before the city hosts the Super Bowl...
...parent decides to sue us. Second, there are errors of omission; for example if someone sues us because their son didn't know how to read. And we're also looking to get defense costs for civil rights issues, as if a woman wasn't hired for a particular job and decides to sue us," he said...