This article points to the US Common Core standards as one reason for literacy declines.
I'd be curious if a similar decline in reading abilities has been observed in other countries that didn't think it was a great idea to teach an entire generation to read excerpts instead of full texts.
Elise Cutts
I know we’ve all read 100 articles like this, but I do recommend this one, especially for the series of questions at the end about how universities (not individual instructors) could change our practice. I’d love to discuss those
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
