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Manzo, Kathleen Kennedy – Education Week, 2007
Chanelle Brown has not found much she can relate to in the classic texts assigned in her English classes at Evanston Township High School. A top student, the junior has toiled through "The Odyssey," "All the King's Men," "The Scarlet Letter," and other standards, she said, while many of her classmates at the suburban Chicago school have given up…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, Student Attitudes, Adolescent Literature, Secondary School Curriculum