Category Archives: E.D. Hirsch and Core Knowledge
Cambridge Assessment – 21st Century Skills
Two weeks ago I spoke at a Cambridge Assessment event on Teaching and Assessing 21st century Skills. Regular readers of this blog will know my thoughts on 21st century skills, and the speech I gave was rather similar to this … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4 Programme on E.D. Hirsch
On Monday evening BBC Radio 4 are broadcasting this documentary on E.D. Hirsch and Core Knowledge. It will feature an interview with Hirsch himself, as well as with Nick Gibb, Sir Michael Barber and Andrew Pollard. As you can see from … Continue reading
E.D. Hirsch is no right-winger
On Tuesday, the Guardian published an article about E.D. Hirsch and his Core Knowledge Curriculum. The article stated that after Hirsch published his work on the importance of knowledge in the curriculum, he ‘was greeted by the American right as … Continue reading
Why you can’t just Google it
In my post here, I talked about the pervasive modern idea that Google renders memory irrelevant, and explained why this idea is false. I want to return to this point here with some further explanations. The best explanation of why … Continue reading
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