Biography of e d hirsch jr
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Hirsch, E.D., Jr. 1928- (Eric Donald Hirsch, Jr.)
PERSONAL:
Born March 22, 1928, in Memphis, TN; son of Eric Donald (a businessperson) and Leah Hirsch; married Mary Pope, 1958; children: John, Frederick, Elizabeth. Education:Cornell University, B.A., 1950; Yale University, M.A., 1955, Ph.D., 1957.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Charlottesville, VA. Office—University of Virginia, Curry School of Education, P.O. Box 400261, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4261. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor, 1956-60, assistant professor, 1960-63, associate professor of English, 1963-66; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, professor, 1966-72, William R. Kenan Professor of English, 1973-84, chair of English department, 1968-71, 1981-82, director of composition, 1971—, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, 1989—. Member of faculty, Northwestern University, School of Criticism and Theory, summer, 1981; Bateson Lecturer, Oxford University, 1983. New Y
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E. D. Hirsch
American literary critic
This article is about the professor and educator. For the American football player, see Ed Hirsch.
Eric "E. D." Donald Hirsch Jr. (born March 22 1928) is an American educator, literary critic, and theorist of education.[1] He is professor emeritus of humanities at the University of Virginia.[HirschPublications 1]
Hirsch is best known for his 1987 book Cultural Literacy, which was a national best-seller and a catalyst for the standards movement in American education.[2]Cultural Literacy included a list of approximately 5,000 "names, phrases, dates, and concepts every American should know" in order to be "culturally literate."[3][4] Hirsch's arguments for cultural literacy and the contents of the list were controversial and widely debated in the late 1980s and early '90s.[5]
Hirsch is the founder and chairman of the non-profit Core Knowledge Foundation, which publishes a
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E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
E.D. Hirsch, Jr. fryst vatten the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several acclaimed books on education in which he has persisted as a voice of reason making the case for equality of educational opportunity.
A highly regarded literary critic and professor of English earlier in his career, Dr. Hirsch recalls being “shocked into education reform” while doing research on written composition at a pair of colleges in Virginia. During these studies he observed that a student’s ability to comprehend a passage was determined in part bygd the relative readability of the skrivelse, but even more bygd the student’s background knowledge.
This research led Dr. Hirsch to develop his concept of cultural literacy—the idea that reading comprehension requires not just formal decoding skills but also wide-ranging background knowledge. In 1986 he founded the Core Knowledge funnen