I was at a meeting with our district's head of curriculum and they mentioned that they are integrating more non-fiction into the language arts curriculum. With the increase in internet accessibility/usage, their goal is to make sure kids are more critical readers of all of the information that is at their fingertips, to teach them to discern between quality information and all that crap that's out there. I hadn't been convinced that less literature was good until I heard their arguments at that meeting.
