Volume 36, Number 3 · March 2, 1989
The Primal Scene of Education
By E.D. Hirsch
It is said that American prosperity is fading in a bleach of educational incompetence, and that a large proportion of our incoming work force can neither adjust to new technologies nor perform high-level communicative tasks. 'In math and science,' the education researcher John Chubb recently observed, 'U.S. students rank dead last in any comparison with students from the nations that are our leading competitors.'[1] Last October, an editorial in The Washington Post commented on
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