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Kohn, A. (1999)

The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

Houghton Mifflin (book; ISBN 978-0395940396) · primary source

Title deliberately echoes and rebuts Hirsch's The Schools We Need; dismisses Hirsch as the father of the 'bunch o' facts' school of education and accuses him of misquoting research; defends progressive, child-centred education.

Primary targets: P08 P01 P24
Availability: closed / restricted
Citation-only. Three targeted fetches for a Kohn site essay on Hirsch/Core Knowledge (article-archive listing, on-site search for 'Hirsch') found no dedicated essay reachable within budget; not pursued further. One directly relevant record exists inside the corpus itself: Hirsch's own book paraphrases and answers a Kohn 'rote memorization' objection (see position k1999-p3 below).
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Positions (3)

Kohn dismisses Hirsch as the father of the 'bunch o' facts' school of education and accuses him of misquoting the research he cites.

assertion secondary summary (no verbatim quote) targets: P01 P08

Hirsch's response — not found

none found in ten books

The Schools Our Children Deserve deliberately echoes the title of The Schools We Need to defend progressive, child-centred education against Hirsch's standardised-content model.

assertion secondary summary (no verbatim quote) targets: P24

Hirsch's response — not found

none found in ten books

Core Knowledge curricula amount to 'rote memorization' -- recorded inside Hirsch's own corpus as an objection attributed to Alfie Kohn, with a named reply.

assertion sub-agent primary read targets: P08

Hirsch's response — found

“Teachers using the curriculum describe it as 'dynamic' and history-based, and the sequential planning actually changes how they teach for the better.” · the-making-of-americans:ch5_C106