A First dictionary of cultural literacy : what our children need to know / edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. ; associate editors, William G. Rowland, Jr. & Michael Stanford.

Title
A First dictionary of cultural literacy : what our children need to know / edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. ; associate editors, William G. Rowland, Jr. & Michael Stanford.

Publication Date
1989

Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin,

Physical Description
xv, 271 p. : ill.

Subject Term
Culture -- Dictionaries, Juvenile.
 
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

Added Author
Hirsch, E. D. (Eric Donald), 1928-
 
Rowland, William G.
 
Stanford, Michael, 1923-

Summary
Presents an outline of the knowledge that, according to the Cultural Literacy Foundation, should be acquired by the end of sixth grade, in such categories as literature, religion and philosophy, history, geography, mathematics, science, and technology.

Language
English

ISBN
9780395510407

General Note
Includes index.


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