An argument for establishing a core curriculum of the basic information everyone needs to know, based on the author's hypothesis that being culturally literate

Provides information on ideas concerning people, places, ideas, and events currently under discussion, including gene therapy, NAFTA, pheromones, and Kwanzaa.

Discusses how to enable students to make sense of what they read through prior knowledge of events, etc.

Build your cultural literacy while inspiring deep, thoughtful, unbiased thinking in students. Discover a six-step framework for becoming culturally literate tha