Writer, speaker, consultant. Chicago Tribune columnist, blogging at Inside Higher Ed. Coming soon, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI. Previously: Why They Can't Write and The Writer's Practice. biblioracle.substack.com
John Warner
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What I worry about with these "students can't read" narratives is reinforcing the idea that they are somehow permanently deformed and it just is not the case. Students are as curious as ever, plenty eager to learn. I had their orientations towards writing on the right track in a couple weeks.
If you give students structured experiences that require them to read as you wish and then model that reading, and use writing to reinforce that type of reading my experience is that they will catch on pretty quickly, but it is a problem that these expectations are foreign to many before college.
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New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey.
Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down.
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"The scholarship underlying this report is terrible, the arguments are weak and the recommendations are destructive to academic freedom and shared governance."
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It's not JUST literacy skills
It's not JUST reading stamina
It's not JUST "the screens"
It's not JUST curriculum choices
It's not JUST homework culture
It's not JUST over-scheduled students
It's not JUST adults not reading, either
It's complicated. Pretending otherwise doesn't help.
