Educational approach prioritizing texts by diverse authors and culturally relevant content, criticized for sacrificing literary merit and canonical works in favor of mediocre YA novels
"Every time I go look for a text from our curriculum that I can use in my class, I am greeted with the reality that our library is entirely comprised of 'culturally responsive' texts from diverse writers... Call me old-fashioned, but I think the literary merit and cultural influence of a story matter"