The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools

From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children.

Why, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, do our schools continue to disappoint us? In this comprehensive book, educational theorist E. D. Hirsch, Jr. masterfully analyzes how American ideas about education have veered off course, what we must do to right them, and most importantly why. He argues that the core problem with American educa...