WHY Can't Students Read "Catcher in the Rye" in School? Meet David Coleman.
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| The only item David Coleman requires now is a crown. |
The big news in education last week was the reduction of fiction reading in schools thanks to Common Core State standards. Many writers bemoaned the fact that Catcher in the Rye was being pulled from the approved list of literature by the centralized education system present in the United States. So much for local control.
Under reported was the story on who is issuing these edicts on educational content and delivery. It's not Obama and it's not Arne Duncan. It's David Coleman, who in our new centralized educational framework, should go by the title "Prince David Coleman" for being the lead architect in the crafting of the standards. He has been endowed with special powers and seems to be untouchable in his pronouncements on how