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Posted on 05/15/2026 1:25:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
We’ve been having a debate about “book bans” in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how any child would even notice whether a book is available in a school library. The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford recently published an eye-opening study documenting steep declines in student test scores, especially in reading.
Over the past 10 years, reading scores have declined in 83% of America’s school districts. What looked like a COVID-driven catastrophe is instead part of a long-running trend.
Reading scores were falling at a similar clip prior to the pandemic, from 2017 to 2019, and continued to fall into 2024. In a third of school districts, kids are reading a full grade level below where they were in 2015.
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The best student is one who learns how to smoke pot, but not read or do math?
Easy Fix, make it Felony Child Abuse for any public employee to send their minor children to any school other than the Public School in the area in which they reside, Forcibly remove the children from the family home and into Foster Care so they can a Proper Education in the Public School System.
What? Is this article implying the future does not belong to Islam and gender fluidity?!
I just saw a YouTube clip about the Renaissance (and per-Reanissance period) which discussed literacy. Turns out that even in the 12th century, literacy was very high in Italy. It was largely a merchant economy — people needed to write letters, needed to read account ledgers, etc. People could read and write. BUT books were rare. Almost no one read books. Then Gutenberg came along (15th century), and books became more common. When people became “book literate” and shared ideas across trading networks, then the Renaissance happened.
Today, everyone texts. They are literate. The read and they write. But today there are very few young people who are “book literate”. So no Renaissance seems likely in the near future.
“Today, everyone texts. They are literate. The read and they write. But today there are very few young people who are “book literate”. So no Renaissance seems likely in the near future.”
Sorry, but “we finna git hi, u feel me, dawg?” doesn’t qualify as literate, or reading, or writing. Thug culture is killing our society in numerous ways, and literacy decline is definitely among them.
Once civilization collapses, maybe the survivors will be able to find “The Wordless Workshop” series.
I am certainly sympathetic to your viewpoint. I do not like Thug culture. But I also have to say that Beowulf —> Chaucer —> Shakespeare —> JRR Tolkien, shows that our language does go through big changes over time. I hope that the Thug culture does not become mainstream, but it is (dare I say) narrow-minded to define it as non-literate. It’s different, for sure. But they understand each other.
Perhaps because "foolishness" casts it in the least offensive manner.
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