we talked about this in teacher school and a huge reason is because about 15-20 years ago, we stopped teaching phonics and started teaching something called "whole reading"
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so an interesting thing here is that the *very sharp* decline in recent years - which virtually every educator I know has remarked upon - seems to be *largely* a U.S. pattern rather than a European one. That to me suggests that we can't just blame the phones.
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The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
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The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
