A warm and reasonably accurate profile of E.D. Hirsch appeared in last Sunday's Washington Post Magazine under the subtitle "How a U-Va. Professor, denounced as elitist and ethnocentric, became a prophet of the school standards movement." The article explains how the gentleman scholar of psycholinguistics and literature from Memphis came to write Cultural Literacy in 1987, suffer attacks from the "progressive" establishment, and then be embraced by the late Albert Shanker, president of the AFT from 1974 until 1997, helping make him a darling of the standards movement, including conservatives such as Kirk Schroder, president of the Virginia Board of Education. For more see "Up Against the Establishment," by Drew Lindsay, The Washington Post Magazine, November 11, 2001
