The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children
- ISBN-10
- 0618872256
- ISBN-13
- 9780618872251
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 169
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Authors
- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Description
Provides an analysis of the state of modern American education to trace a link between a lack of reading comprehension and poor performance and furnishes specific tools for parents to enhance a child's ability to read with comprehension.
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- 2007-04-01
- 192 pages
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- 2006
- 169 pages
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