id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
educationr-2149	Currie-Knight, Kevin	Review of Why knowledge matters: Rescuing our children from failed educational theories	2017	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2518	96	45	Hirsch’s big idea is that content knowledge - rather than general reading skills - is the prime mover of successful reading, and our collective emphasis on teaching the latter over the former in reading instruction has undermined student success. I might, instead, believe that if content knowledge is the key to reading success, and children are almost certain not to be interested in the same content at the same times (and the less interest, the less retention), the best approach is the more individualistic one Hirsch criticizes.	cache/educationr-2149.pdf	txt/educationr-2149.txt