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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.”

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

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