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.
alternative frameworkprogressive

Meier, D. (1995)

The Power of Their Ideas (see also In Schools We Trust, 2002)
Beacon Press (book) · primary source
Documents successful progressive education for disadvantaged children at the Central Park East schools (East Harlem), offered as a working counter-example to Hirsch's claim that progressive, non-content-specified methods inherently fail poor children.
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: P08 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)

The Central Park East schools (East Harlem) demonstrated successful progressive education for disadvantaged children, challenging Hirsch's claim that progressive methods inherently fail poor children.
argument secondary summary (no verbatim quote) targets: P08 P23
Hirsch's response — not found
none found in ten books