Schooling: What Should Children Read?
Shakespeare vs. menus: The battle over public school reading lists.
This article references the type of longform writing that provides opportunities for breadth of subject matter, but enough depth to challenge the reader in important ways. Both ProPublica and Longform are fantastic sites, and of course the Gladwell articles from the New Yorker are powerful reminders of how good non-fiction writing can be.
Links:
http://www.gladwell.com/
http://longform.org/
www.propublica.org
So much great stuff from Gladwell - he sparks great conversations: http://blog.ted.com/2006/03/16/gladwell_v_levi/
ReplyDeleteI am happy when Blair students freely choose to read, period. There is a lot of well-written nonfiction which sparks ideas and demonstrates skillful writing.
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