Th e Disuniting of America’s History: Core Knowledge and the National Past

People who have called this approach a collection of “mere facts” or called it names such as “Eurocentric” and “elitist” have not bothered to fi nd out just what is in the Core Knowledge Sequence.

E. D. Hirsch in Common Knowledge, the newsletter of the Core Knowledge Foundation (2001a, pp. 3-4)

Writing in the Harvard Educational Review [Kristen Buras], accused Hirsch of posing “serious threats to a social order already unjust and unequal.” Apparently the theorists who attack Hirsch completely ignore the substantial content on ethnic minorities to be found in the Core Knowledge Curricular Sequence.