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I\u2019m a non-fiction reader, but not reading\u00a0To Kill a Mockingbird? Very Sad: \u201cAmerican literature classics are to be replaced by insulation manuals and plant inventories in US classrooms by 2014.\u00a0A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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