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. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1989. - xv, 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 249-254.

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.

0395510406 : $14.95

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Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries.

AG 105 .F43 1989

031.02