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Essays by E. D. Hirsch
- "Another Kind of Dyslexia: Incomprehension" Keynote address, New York Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, 35th Annual Conference, March 7, 2008. Audio recording.
- "Plugging the Hole in State Standards, One Man's Modest Proposal" American Educator, Spring 2008
- "The Knowledge Connection" Washington Post and other newspapers, Feb. 15, 2008
- "Narrowing the Two Achievement Gaps" A presentation at the 18th Education Trust National Conference, Washington, D.C., Nov. 9, 2007
- "Strategic Thoughts — Undelivered Remarks", Philanthropy Roundtable, Nov. 10, 2006
- Manhattan Institute Talk about The Knowledge Deficit and New York City reading scores, May 4, 2006
- “The Case for Bringing Content into the Language Arts Block and for a Knowledge-Rich Curriculum Core for all Children” American Educator, Spring 2006
- “Many Americans can read but can’t comprehend.” USA Today, February 25, 2004
- “General and Particular Aims of Education” Principal Leadership, March, 2003 (you must be a member of NASSP to view this article.)
- “Neglecting the early grades” in Our schools and our future: are we still at risk? ed Paul E. Peterson. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, 2003
- “Not So Grand a Strategy,” Education Next, Spring 2003
- “Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge — of Words and of the World” American Educator, Spring, 2003
- “Classroom Research and Cargo Cults” Policy Review Oct-Nov 2002
- “Breadth Versus Depth: A Premature Polarity” from Common Knowledge, Fall 2001
- “The Latest Dismal NAEP Scores: Can We Narrow the 4th-Grade Reading Gap?” an essay that first appeared in Education Week, May 2, 2001
- “Ideas, Convictions, Courage: People Tell the Story of Core Knowledge" (Common Knowledge, Spring 2001)
- “Jeanne Chall's Last Book,” American Educator, Spring 2001
- “Overcoming the Language Gap,” American Educator, Summer 2001
- “The Roots of the Education Wars” Catholic Education Resource Center, 2003. Reprint from presentation at a 2001 conference. Also adapted and published in The Great Curriculum Debate: How Should We Teach Reading and Math? edited by Tom Loveless. The entire text of this book may be read at Google Books.
- “The SAT: Blaming the Messenger.” The Hoover Institution Weekly Essay, May 28, 2001
- “Choosing Excellence ” from Segment Two of The Merrow Report, a public radio and TV documentary series on youth and learning, NPR, June 6, 2000
- “The Tests We Need and Why We Don't Quite Have Them” an essay that first appeared in Education Week, February 2, 2000
- “You Can Always Look It Up — Or Can You?” adapted from the closing address at the 9th Core Knowledge National Conference, Anaheim, California, March 18, 2000
- “Romancing the Child” an article adapted by Education Next from a speech given at Harvard University in October 1999
- “Why Core Knowledge Promotes Social Justice” convocation address, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, October 6, 1999
- “An Address to the Joint Committee on Head Start Reauthorization” March 26, 1998
- “Class Size: A Question of Trade-Offs” excerpts from testimony before the Joint Congressional Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families Hearing, February 24, 1998
- “Heroes of Education Reform” (Common Knowledge, Fall 1998)
- “Why General Knowledge Should Be a Goal of Education in a Democracy” address at the 7th Core Knowledge National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 14, 1998
- “An Address to the California State Board of Education” April 10, 1997
- “Toward a Centrist Curriculum: Two Kinds of Multiculturalism in Elementary School” an essay for the Core Knowledge Foundation, 1991, 1997
- “What Al Shanker Taught Us,” The Washington Post, March 1, 1997, Op/ed
- “Why Traditional Education is More Progressive” The American Enterprise, March/April, 1997
- “Challenging Intellectual Monopoly” an excerpt from The Schools We Need & Why We Don't Have Them, 1996
- “Reality’s Revenge,” American Educator, Fall, 1996. An excerpt from The Schools We Need.
- “Fairness and Core Knowledge” an essay for the Core Knowledge Foundation, 1992
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