Poetry…right?!?!

By Kelley

Since I don’t subscribe to any newspapers, my friend was kind enough to send me this from Andrea Gabor. it’s long, but my post is at the end!

[Amanda Gorman Showed Why Schools Should Teach Poetry Again — Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-23/amanda-gorman-showed-why-schools-should-teach-poetry-again)

Amanda Gorman Showed Why Schools Should Teach Poetry

Verse has mostly been erased from the curriculum. After Inauguration Day, it should be easy to see why that’s a mistake.

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Andrea Gabor

January 23, 2021, 8:00 AM EST

Were curriculum writers listening?

Andrea Gabor, a former editor at Business Week and U.S. News & World Report, is the Bloomberg chair of business journalism at Baruch College of the City University of New York and the author of “After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform.”

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President Joe Biden finally took his oath of office during the inauguration ceremony on Wednesday. Having overcome historic obstacles, he was almost upstaged by a poet — a fitting coda to the investiture of the nation’s poetry-lover-in-chief.