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Written by an English teacher, How schools are destroying the joy of reading is definitely not an attack on teachers or schools. Rather it is an attack on those huge textbooks that hinder teens from really enjoying language and literature.
The piece concludes with:
“It’s time for states and school districts to kick the mega-textbook habit that four or five big corporations control and start spending money on the kind of books that will make kids want to do sustained reading, to get lost in the written word. For English classes, that’s paperback novels (whole novels) and collections of short stories (complete short stories) and poetry.”