"Students need to be able to pick up a challenging, fat book and know how to approach it, read it, and learn from it," she argued. "Students should be reading whole biographies like David McCullough's John Adams and historical books like Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror as well as novels and plays." Will Fitzhugh, the founder of The Concord Review, who often comments on this and other EdWeek blogs, said the draft should have placed greater stress on nonfiction documents and research papers. Full Article at Education Week