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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:46:05 -0600
Marc,
I have a few questions I hope you can answer.
Is the 50%/75% measure specific to a discipline?
What do the Common Core people define as "nonfiction"? Do textbooks fall in that category? They're full of errors. The middle school teacher in Tucson Unified School District was reassigned from teaching "Mexican American History" to "American History" and was told to use the district-approved textbook that says the Tohono O'odham people mysteriously disappeared. Of course, she had Tohono O'odham students in her class.
The 50%/75% mandate suggests that a correction is necessary.... That most of what students are reading is fiction. It all depends on how you define fiction/nonfiction, I suppose, but they obviously felt it necessary to say "stop reading all that fiction!" Can you shed any light on the thinking behind the mandate? It seems that the literature most at risk with this mandate is historical fiction.
I like the K and the L distinction. Your note that NF "as settled knowledge" is a good one. A lot of shelves would be bare if we removed all the nonfiction that has factually incorrect information about American Indians.
Debbie
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Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature _at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Received on Tue 06 Mar 2012 05:46:05 AM CST
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:46:05 -0600
Marc,
I have a few questions I hope you can answer.
Is the 50%/75% measure specific to a discipline?
What do the Common Core people define as "nonfiction"? Do textbooks fall in that category? They're full of errors. The middle school teacher in Tucson Unified School District was reassigned from teaching "Mexican American History" to "American History" and was told to use the district-approved textbook that says the Tohono O'odham people mysteriously disappeared. Of course, she had Tohono O'odham students in her class.
The 50%/75% mandate suggests that a correction is necessary.... That most of what students are reading is fiction. It all depends on how you define fiction/nonfiction, I suppose, but they obviously felt it necessary to say "stop reading all that fiction!" Can you shed any light on the thinking behind the mandate? It seems that the literature most at risk with this mandate is historical fiction.
I like the K and the L distinction. Your note that NF "as settled knowledge" is a good one. A lot of shelves would be bare if we removed all the nonfiction that has factually incorrect information about American Indians.
Debbie
__________________________________________________________
Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature _at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
Now: Studying for MLIS at San Jose State University Then: Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies, University of Illinois
Received on Tue 06 Mar 2012 05:46:05 AM CST
