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Opinion: We can’t teach democracy by sidelining literature in school
by Special to El Paso Matters, El Paso Matters August 10, 2023 By Rebecca Guerrero, Vanessa Sanders and Jonna Perrillo In 1938, on the eve of World War II, revolutionary literary scholar Louise Rosenblatt claimed: “All teachers have the professional responsibility – and should demand the opportunity – to share not only in developing the […]
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The “Good Reader” Community of Inquiry
On Friday July 21, we wrapped up our 2-week NEH Summer Institute for Teachers, “Making the Good Reader and Citizen: The History of Literature Instruction in American Schools,” hosted on zoom by the University of Texas, El Paso, directed by Jonna Perrillo and me.