Education World – Nicole Gorman
“Reports have been circulating that the Common Core’s mandate to have nonfiction reading comprise 70 percent of classroom literature has resulted in a significant decline in the reading of fiction by America’s high school students. This, according to the Daily Caller, has resulted in English teachers across the country being forced to toss classics like “Huckleberry Finn” and “The Great Gatsby” in order to make room for the required nonfiction quota. But since the Common Core created the nonfiction mandate, the only tangible result, according to the article, has been in the decrease of fiction texts in classrooms.”(more)