Writers Pan Lack Of Literature In Common Core Standards

In an op-ed in the Herald News (MA) (9/21) , Charles Chieppo and Jamie Gass of the Center for School Reform at Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based think tank, write at length praising Mark Twain for both his "literary genius" and accessibility, and lament that "students in Massachusetts and across most of the country may soon have to seek out Huckleberry Finn on their own, because it isn't included in national K-12 education standards that have been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia." They complain that the Common Core Standards "include less than half as much classic literature and poetry than the Massachusetts standards they will replace."