A close friend, a music teacher, was speaking to me recently about the incorporation of more informational and non—fiction texts into the English Language Arts curriculum. He asked me, “How can a student leave high school without learning The Catcher in the Rye or The Lord of the Flies to make room for these other texts? I said to him, ”Well, what do you teach? Does every student leave learning the Hallelujah Chorus? What happens if they do not? Do they still take…
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