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Article: Changes in America's secondary school literature programs.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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Good News and Bad
In just the past half-century, great changes have occurred in both the specific selections and the cultural content of secondary school literature programs. Ms. Stotsky details these changes and discusses concerns that they raise.
Vast changes have taken place over the past three decades in the content of history textbooks and in the teaching of American and world history. Vast changes have also occurred in the content of reading and literature programs. But in contrast to the professional and public attention that has been focused on changes in history textbooks and curricula, relatively little attention has been paid to reading and ...