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Fiction or Non-Fiction? A Veteran Journalist Explains Why He Ventured into Fiction

Yesterday’s segment about new curriculum guidelines that would replace some beloved novels with non-fiction reading in K-12 classrooms sparked a lot of responses listener responses about the virtues of fiction and non-fiction. What’s more important for a high school education: fiction reading or non-fiction reading?    “A mixture of both” listener Shannon wrote on The […]

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