Politico reports on how America's high school English teachers are adapting curriculum to the current political climate.
After watching the tumult of the 2016 presidential election play out inside their classrooms last year, and after a summer of hate-filled violence, many are retooling the reading lists and assignments they typically give their students. They worry that the classic high school canon doesn't sufficiently cover today's most pressing themesquestions about alienation and empathy and powerand that the usual writing prompts aren't enough to get students thinking deeper than an average cable news segment.
After watching the tumult of the 2016 presidential election play out inside their classrooms last year, and after a summer of hate-filled violence, many are retooling the reading lists and assignments they typically give their students. They worry that the classic high school canon doesn't sufficiently cover today's most pressing themesquestions about alienation and empathy and powerand that the usual writing prompts aren't enough to get students thinking deeper than an average cable news segment.