Civics and "Cultural Literacy" in US Education system

Hey!

I recently began reading E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy and was wondering if someone could help me put its ideas into some contemporary context. I understand the work was published in the 1980s, and so was wondering if someone could explain the impacts it had at that time, and perhaps some of effects, if any, it's had on the education system in the US. (I understand parsing out effects like that might be contentious, given the inherent difficulty in pinning down causal relationships in this context.)

Note: I was originally pointed to this book by this article, so I have that as my starting point for understanding current understanding.

Thanks!

Submitted December 22, 2016 at 11:29AM by Holmes19 http://ift.tt/2hdSPE5