At City Journal, Sol Stern on E. D. Hirsch�s Curriculum for Democracy: A content-rich pedagogy makes better citizens and smarter kids. One quote:
The �Massachusetts miracle,� in which Bay State students� soaring test scores broke records, was the direct consequence of the state legislature�s passage of the 1993 Education Reform Act, which established knowledge-based standards for all grades and a rigorous testing system linked to the new standards. And those standards, Massachusetts reformers have acknowledged, are Hirsch�s legacy. If the Obama administration truly wants to have a positive impact on American education, it should embrace Hirsch�s ideas and urge other states to do the same.