Readers Need Not Apply (by Ann Policelli Cronin)
Connecticut educator and fellow education blogger Ann Policelli Cronin recently posted a great article about how the “education reformers” and their Common Core and Common Core testing scheme are seeking to narrow down the role of public education.
In the name of making students “College and Career Ready,” those who seek to profit off public education see little role for concepts like literature, music, arts and the humanities.
In a piece that first appeared on her blog entitled Readers Need Not Apply, Ann Cronin writes;
In the early 1960’s, as the United States was becoming the leading economy in the world, the International Paper Company posted an ad in every edition of The Reader’s Digest which said: “Send me a man who reads”. It always had an accompanying text which indicated that the one who reads is the one who thinks, is the one who is productive, and is the one becomes the successful leader of the company.I am sure that the reading referred to was not the short test prep informational articles or excerpts of full-length texts as now are read in U.S. schools.No longer is that slogan relevant. Not only is it both women and men that we expect to be in positions of leadership, but also now reading literature is noReaders Need Not Apply (by Ann Policelli Cronin) - Wait What?:
