The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children

By E. Hirsch. 2006

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Improving Middle School Students’ Science Literacy Through Reading Infusion (2010, background): “Related to this point, Hirsch (2006) argued that spending an excessive amount of time for conscious strategy practices after initial instruction does not necessarily yield better results in reading comprehension and can be a waste of the precious school time.”
The Emotional Ambivalence of Socially Just Teaching: A Case Study of a Novice Urban Schoolteacher (2008, unknown): “On one hand, some scholars argue that teaching is backed by decades of research in cognitive psychology and therefore should be considered a cognitive activity (e.g., Hirsch, 1996, 2006); from this perspective, emotions are perceived as entirely distinct from rational thinking.”