[NLA] E.D. Hirsch Jr. Reference

[George E. Demetrion]

 http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mathman/edh2cal.htm

I had mentioned the influence of E.D. Hirsch on the neo-conservative
thinking that appears to be informing the USDOE under the Bush
administration.  For those interested, Hirsch's talk to the California
State Board of Education (linked above) provides a good overview of his
perspective.  I encourage folks interested in probing the ideological
basis of the current USDOE to take a good, hard look at Hirsch's talk.  

While there might be superficial bi-partisanship informing the Bush
presidency on education, the ideological strains underlaying such policy
are anything but bi-partisan. In any event, Hirsch's talk provides a good
overview of some of the key strands that go into the neo-conservative
thinking that shapes the USDOE policy. 

BTW, just because it is neo-conservative doesn't make it elicit, but it
does make it value-laden, scientific talk of objectivity notwithstanding.
 My goal here is to flesh out the ideology so that it can be openly
discussed in the marketplace of ideas rather than kept under wraps under
the guise of scientific objectivity (neutrality) and the rubric of the
"evidence-based" education movement which masks a great deal.

For a critique of Hirsch by the educational scholar Walter Feinberg,
click on the following link:

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/Archives/13_03/hirsch.htm

George Demetrion



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