An English professor takes a critical look at why today’s students are assigned the same books that were assigned decades ago – and why American school curricula are so difficult to change.
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Decades of inadequate teaching material and resources to support Black students in Ontario means they are severely underserved by their schools.
To Kill a Mockingbird is no sermon. Its lessons are presented in effortless style, tackling the complexity of race issues with startling clarity and a strong sense of reality.
As Harry Potter turns 20, a scholar says protesters who try to censor books do not trust young readers to discern the difference between fantasy and reality. But why?
Atticus Finch, we learn in Go Set a Watchman, once attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting, and welcomes pro-segregation speakers at local council meetings. But is he really so different to the man we know from To Kill a Mockingbird?
The novel’s two main characters represent the constitutional conundrum that many Americans grappled with in the pre-civil rights era.
Lee’s second novel is an angrier, more disillusioned, and more obviously political work than her classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.
By now there can be few people who don’t know Harper Lee’s supposedly long-lost manuscript, Go Set a Watchman, will be published in July. It will be the first book published by Lee since To Kill a Mockingbird…
The announcement of the upcoming publication of Go Set a Watchman – a sequel to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird actually written before the famous novel – has, not surprisingly, set off a flurry of…
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, has sold tens of millions of copies worldwide, and was voted The Greatest Novel of All Time in a London Daily Telegraph poll of 2008…
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of American Literature, University of Warwick
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Professor, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Department Chair of English, Meredith College
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Associate Teaching Professor of Writing, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor and Chair, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
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Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
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Professor, Jean Augustine Chair in Education, Community & Diaspora, York University, Canada