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PragerU video draws backlash for depicting Frederick Douglass in an animation calling slavery a compromise between the Founding Fathers and the Southern colonies for the benefit of the U.S.

My picks in the poll were “Charlotte’s Web,” “Catch-22” and Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” books which affected me profoundly at the time I read them, and which have shaped my perception of the world since.

The #Disrupt Texts website is a pernicious advocate of displacing Shakespeare and other significant figures and works, including F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Harper Lee’s <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em> and Arthur Miller’s <em>The Crucible</em>.

In an effort to expand the literary canon for students across all grade levels, Penguin Classics has joined forces with #DisruptTexts, a crowdsourced, grassroots organization orchestrated by and aimed at teachers.

a- The reading and study of the classics used to be an important part of our educational system.  Theres plenty of material.   English-language writers have written many famous books, and  many works of literature from other languages have been translated into English.  Nowadays though, much  of the market share of the classics has been taken over by the Young Adult Fiction genre, targeted to adolescents.  As Wikipedia describes it, "The subject matter and genres of YA correlate with th...

A screenshot of the homepage of #Disrupttexts website. | #DisruptTexts Theres a growing movement known as #DisruptTexts, led by educators who are seeking to promote “anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices” in the classroom by creating a more inclusive language arts curriculum. The groups work has recently been the focus of a passionate debate on social media after WSJ childrens book critic and author Meghan Cox Gurdon argued in an op-ed Sunday that they are “purging and pr...

Homer Canceled In the Wall Street Journal, Meghan Gurdon documents the latest stage of our culture’s devolution toward utter stupidity: the cancellation of Homer. A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss. Their ethos holds that children shouldn’t have to ...