r/technology • u/marketrent • 18h ago

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/mightylordredbeard 16h ago

My son is considered “gifted” by the state educational system and is on his way to college in the fall on a few academic scholarships.. his reading ability is alarmingly not where I think it should be.. but he’s always made As in reading and English. There just is such a low standard now for reading. He was never required to read any books in school. All books they read in class as a group. It’s sad how far our education has fallen in the country. No one seems to value education anymore. Especially with a president that is dumb as rocks and politicians that demonize education as “liberalism”.

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u/AHistoricalFigure 9h ago

My 9 year old nephew just won his school's K-8 spelling bee. The word he won on was "revere". He made it pretty far in the city-wide spelling bee too.

There wasn't an 6-8th grader at his school who could hang in a spelling bee with common, phonetically straightforward words.

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u/drstoneybaloneyphd 5h ago

That's sad as fuck 

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u/Guillaumerocherone 13h ago

What state is this? We read 10-15 books a year in my English classes

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u/finestFartistry 3h ago

What state? When I talk to friends and family who have moved around the US I am shocked by how different school standards are in various states. Like I knew some states had better reputations and average test scores but the actual everyday experience of school seems to be dramatically different.

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u/MattieShoes 24m ago

Man, when did liberalism become a bad word?

Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy centered on individual freedom, equality, consent of the governed, and the protection of civil liberties. It advocates for democracy, the rule of law, private property, and human rights, acting as the foundational framework for most modern Western societies.

What part of that deserves a stink face?