<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; min-height: 18px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The poor Rhodes Scholar probably doesn't even know we <u>have</u> <b>History</b> classes in our schools!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Letter</b></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></b></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 3.0px 0.0px; font: 18.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><b>Standards for English Class</b></font></span></p><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Published: December 4, 2012</font></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">To the Editor of <i>The New York Times</i>:</font></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">For Op-Ed, follow <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/nytopinion"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1324a7">@nytopinion</span></a> and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/andyrNYT"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1324a7">@andyrNYT</span></a>.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Re “<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/what-should-children-read/"><span style="text-decoration: underline ; letter-spacing: 0.0px color: #1324a7">What Should Children Read?</span></a>” (Sunday Review, Nov. 25):</font></span></p><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Sara Mosle wrote a thoughtful article about what students read and the Common Core Standards, but it does not make clear facts that demonstrate the central role of reading fiction in the standards.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">First, the standards for the English Language Acquisition classroom keep the focus mostly on fiction, in which the study of Shakespeare is explicitly required, as well as novels, including classic American works. The change the standards make to the grades 6-to-12 E.L.A. classroom is to invite more<b> literary nonfiction</b> as defined in the standards, including <b>essays, narrative nonfiction and other literary writing</b> to a wide audience that makes an argument or conveys information.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Our country’s founding documents and the great conversation they inspired are offered as explicit models for <b>high-quality literary nonfiction for the E.L.A. classroom.</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">To be absolutely clear, reading fiction retains a central role in the Common Core Standards in grades K to 12, and the primary role in English Language Arts for grades 6 to 12, where it is <b>complemented by high-quality literary nonfiction</b>.</font></span></p><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>DAVID COLEMAN</b><br>
New York, November 25, 2012</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The writer, the president and chief executive of the College Board, helped design and promote the Common Core.</font></i></span></p><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><i><br></i></span></div></div></div><br></div></div><br></body></html>