Here's a welcome development from Down Under. An advice paper on the national English curriculum has just been released and, as reported in The Australian:
... it appears that those in charge of developing the nation's curriculum have sided with the critics. Teaching grammar, punctuation and spelling is back on the agenda.
Even better, literature (as opposed to the nebulous term "text") is back in its own right as schools are told that all students need to be given a grounding in those works of Australian and world literature that have survived the test of time.
That grammar, punctuation and spelling ever came off the agenda for teaching English is, perhaps, the puzzle here. Literature likewise. (Other reports on this from the Australian press.)