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What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?

Name: What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?
Author: Lynne V. Cheney
ISBN: 9780060158491

by Lynne V. Cheney

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About the Author, Lynne V. Cheney

Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch is a Research Professor of Education at New York University. She holds the Brown Chair in Education Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Library Journal

This addresses some of the same issues as Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind ( LJ 5/1/87) and E. D. Hirsch, Jr.'s Cultural Literacy ( LJ 6/1/87), but with less crankiness. All three books agree that history and literature need to be re-emphasized in curriculums. The present work focuses on 11th grade youngsters and the results of the first national test of students' knowledge of history and literature, funded by the NEH. It goes behind the scores to identify factors in higher achievement, and includes recommendations for teaching. A thoughtful, objective work by two distinguished authors. Recommended. Annette V. Janes, Director Hamilton P.L., Mass.