As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school.
Millennials, typically defined as individuals born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s, are now at a point in their lives where their generational nostalgia is front and center.
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Saba Hamedy,
NBC news,
7 Nov. 2025
Spirited, political, and deeply kind individuals, the Christos were passionately devoted to their artistic vision.
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