Friday, August 04, 2023

Reading for fun plunges to ‘crisis’ level for US students

How times change over the millennia! Stone tablets and parchment were replaced with paper. Paper served us so well for at least the last 600 years.

Now we are in the digital age! Books or other paper based reading materials have become like stone tablets for younger generations!

How do we teach the next generation about all the great things that happened and all the important lessons learnt in the past and distant past? A tremendous challenge!

On e.g. YouTube you can learn so much if you know what to select among the hundreds of millions of videos.

"Only 14 percent of students say they read for fun every day, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report released recently, down 3 percentage points from 2020 and 13 since 2012. The report indicates 31 percent of students never or hardly ever read for fun. ..."

Reading for fun plunges to ‘crisis’ level for US students | The Hill

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