Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
- ISBN-10
- 039543095X
- ISBN-13
- 9780395430958
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin
- Authors
- Joseph F. Kett, Eric Donald Hirsch, James S. Trefil
Description
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.
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