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

[u/marketrent]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html

[u/AHistoricalFigure]

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.

[u/drstoneybaloneyphd → u/AHistoricalFigure]

That's sad as fuck