Beware The Loss Of Literature

“The complexity of texts students are being assigned to read has declined by about three grade levels over the past 100 years...(b)y reducing literary study, Common Core decreases students’ opportunity to develop the analytical thinking once developed in just an elite group by the vocabulary, structure, style, ambiguity, point of view, figurative language, and irony in classic literary texts.”
Nicole Russell
http://thefederalist.com/2015/03/17/beware-the-loss-of-literature/