Academic Achievement Gap

What does E.D. Hirsch Jr. propose as the solution to closing the academic achievement gap?

• Increased funding

• More hands-on activities

• Cultural Literacy

• Common Core

Hirsch admits that his list if cultural terms is dominated by WASPs (white Anglo-Saxon protestants)

• True

• False

Hirsch is politically

• liberal

• conservative

Hirsch is educationally

• liberal

• conservative

Estes thinks that Hirsch is basically advocating for

Estes believes that an increase in ignorance of high school graduates is because they were taught as Hirsch suggests

• True

• False

Both sides of the argument agree that racial segregation by district lines does not exist anymore.

• True

• False