High school reading lists are notoriously white and male, exposing students to only a narrow perspective on the world and making it hard for kids to relate to what they read. Many schools are taking the initiative to add more works by women and people of color to the curriculum. The Sun Sentinel quotes English […]
...moreParents in one of the wealthiest towns in Texas are lobbying to get Ayn Rand into schools, and in a classic case of life imitating art (or art being chosen to reflect and enact a desired worldview, perhaps) they intend to do so at the expense of ‘The Working Poor,” a contemporary anthropological study by […]
...moreA recent piece on NPR indicated that, according to recent studies, high school students are more and more frequently reading below their grade level. It explained that the growing popularity of book series like The Hunger Games among teenagers is an indirect cause of this, forcing classics that formerly dominated high school summer reading lists—”Sophocles, Shakespeare, Dickens, […]
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