he list published in Cultural Literacy with national curricula in a number of other countries, including Sweden, France, and Japan. A committee of scholars also recommended multicultural information to add to the list. And groups of teachers in two states reviewed the resulting master list to determine which topics should be introduced at each grade level.
About 100 educators, parents, and experts from a variety of disciplines met in 1990 to pare down the resulting list and determine the final sequence, according to Mr. Hirsch.
"We're not pretending to be the whole story," said Mr. Hirsch, who donates all the proceeds from his commercial books to the foundation. "But you've got to have something concrete and manageable in order to go forward."
Vol. 11, Issue 01, Page 14Published in Print: September 4, 1991, as Hirsch To Publish 'Cultural Literacy' Curriculum for Grades 1-6