What's Your Score On The S.A.T. (Salvation Aptitude Test)? Ten years ago a college professor named E.D. Hirsch gained national notoriety for a radical thesis about education. In a book entitled Cultural Literacy he wrote that a basic purpose of education is to replace ignorance with knowledge. He argued that such fashionable educational concepts as "problem solving," "critical thinking," and "creativity" are empty if students possess no core of shared knowledge. The passage of a decade - despite the birth of the so-called Information Age and the supposed building of the Information Superhighway - has only added support to his...