Happened across an interesting news story (Breitbart) on the topic.
Study Finds Poetry Endangered in Common Core English Standards I commend reading the story but following are some salient excerpts:
"A new study suggests that the literary genre of poetry is likely to become endangered in the Common Core-based English classroom due to the dramatic reduction in time spent on literary texts in favor of informational ones, a change that is implicitly mandated by the centralized standards."
"�A school�s poetry curriculum is not designed to teach skills that will help students get jobs,� Highfill says. �It is to �make minds, not careers.� When a mind is strengthened, so is the ability to secure employment.�"
"In examining the reasons Common Core appears to be hostile to poetry as a literary genre as it also focuses on transforming students into workers,....�
�The whole thrust of their standards is away from poetry and toward �informational� texts,�� the authors write. �Information can be managed. But poetry cannot.�
�Information for information�s sake befits a soulless drudge in a soulless world,� they add. �Poetry for poetry�s sake befits a fully mature human being, who is infinitely more than a worker or a voter.�" (emphasis added)
