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TEACHER VOICE: Big mistake — Schools are swapping out Shakespeare, Chaucer and Dickens for Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift

The other day, one of my students told me that she’d been assigned the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar for her high school English class. It was the first time I had encountered a high school English assignment involving an author with whom I was wholly unfamiliar. But can we even call rapper and songwriter Kendrick […]