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Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction

In “The Dying of the Light: How Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction,” co-authored by Anthony Esolen, Jamie Highfill, and Sandra Stotsky, Esolen, a poet and professor of literature at Providence College, concludes, “The Common Core proponents do not like poetry.”

For more click on the link below to read the full article. 

http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2014/04/study-finds-poetry-slighted-common-core-english-standards/

COMMON CORE DAMAGES AMERICAN LITERATURE AND MUST BE TAUGHT THE ORIGINAL WAY.  NOT IN SOME FABRICATED UNPROVEN CROOKED MANNER.  OUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOU TEST FODDERS FOR THIS FAILED UNPROVEN CRUEL EXPERINCE THAT LACKS EVIDENC BASED EVIDENE. 

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