Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
- ISBN-10
- 0394758439
- ISBN-13
- 9780394758435
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Authors
- E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Description
Argues that American children are deprived of cultural literacy
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- 1987
- 251 pages
- Paperback
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin
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