Hirsch Argument Atlas
Named criticism registry — machine-compiled 2026-08-18 and provenance-audited for the live dossiers through 2026-08-24. Dossier-linked records expose structured primary and companion sources with an explicit access/review basis. Position-card source tags describe how wording entered the registry; the source-provenance records state separately whether full text, excerpts, an abstract, a secondary treatment, or only a citation was actually reviewed. Targets are unreviewed.
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Kozol, J. (1991)

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Crown (book) · primary source
Argues educational inequality is fundamentally a matter of funding and resource disparity between districts, not curriculum content; Hirsch's focus on what is taught is, on this view, a distraction from the structural cause.
Used in Dossier 2

This critic is attached to the exact objection and inference it challenges, not merely to the topic.

D2 · O6 — Curriculum may be one equity lever among structural causes · targets A1 A6 A8 I7

Primary targets: P07 P23
Availability: closed / restricted
Citation-only, per task scope; not fetched. Characterisation drawn from research/hirsch-bibliography-2026-03-29.md Part 5.
Registry verification: no

Positions (1)

Educational inequality is fundamentally about disparities in district funding and resources, not curriculum content -- so Hirsch's focus on what is taught distracts from the structural cause.
argument secondary summary (no verbatim quote) targets: P07 P23
Hirsch's response — not found
none found in ten books