On Teaching Classic Literature
Futurity recently published an article by Angie Hunt called “The case for teaching students to question ‘classic literature’” which discusses research by Jeanne Dyches into the way literature is selected and taught in high school classrooms. Dyches’ research involved asking a high school literature class to “[review] more than a century’s worth of national studies on the titles most commonly taught, national and local standards for recommended readings, as well as local and state curriculum policies.” Her “findings” include an increase…