
Keep Classic Literature in US Schools!
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American literature classics are to be replaced by insulation manuals and plant inventories in US classrooms by 2014.
A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace.
Books such as JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by "informational texts" approved by the Common Core State Standards.
Let's stop this from happening!!
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Articles on this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9729383/Catcher-in-the-Rye-dropped-from-US-school-curriculum.html
http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/08/classic-literature-to-be-dropped-from-high-schools-in-favor-of-informational-texts/
http://educationviews.org/classic-literature-to-be-dropped-from-high-schools-in-favor-of-informational-texts/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9729383/Catcher-in-the-Rye-dropped-from-US-school-curriculum.html
http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/08/classic-literature-to-be-dropped-from-high-schools-in-favor-of-informational-texts/
http://educationviews.org/classic-literature-to-be-dropped-from-high-schools-in-favor-of-informational-texts/



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