Thank you Mr. Sykes. Yes only if we were warned that the generation attending school are struggling with the task of reading, let alone the comprehension level of what they may be reading. Heaven forbid that teachers have blown the fog horn so loud for years that nobody has listened. That maybe a drag queen or two took time to volunteer and read to kids to engage their minds so that comprehension of the story read to them came easier. That reading became something fun to do. Heaven forbid, because you know those kids need to be indoctrinated on what not to read by banning books that spark their imagination or possibly give them any excitement in reading stories.
Yea the Dummying Down of not just one generation that is attending college but the generation after them attending grade school.. The generation after that will only be able to read traffic signs if we’re lucky..
Watching his name coming off the Kennedy Center .. that’s one of that Tangerine Twatwaddle name hitting the dumpster where it belongs…
This weekend is a clusterfuck. Musk, Ellison and Trump's birthday party celebrating the complete corruption of Washington DC for his ego, the corruption of the government for his own greed and of course now the enjoining of Wall Street, silicon valley and the entire media landscape is worsening our ability to climb out of the CORRUPTOSPHERE because now the greedy CEOs are quite clearly sitting on top of the US taxpayers inability to climb out of debt.
I am uncertain if Trump has any interest in ending the war, he probably believes he is well served by dragging it out as long as possible.
Woe to the country for putting this Trump regime in office. Perhaps they abide by that passage about 'suffer little children' which I can't recall and found confusing without interpretation.
One reason college students are struggling to read may be that public schools are being forced to do one impossible thing and one counterproductive thing. It is impossible for schools to fix student problems caused by poor parenting and socioeconomic adversity. And it is not the role of schools to teach children to embrace progressive values and causes the way they are today. Gaza and gender have no place in the classroom. Focus on basics.
It's horrifying, but not at all surprising, to consider how much has changed from a world where three-year- olds were praised lavishly for reading words on shop signs and then whole sentences in Little Golden Books, and were reading chapter books to themselves in kindergarten. Mothers declared that their kids were "smart" if they learned to read early, and how well kids were doing in elementary school was always measured heavily by reading ability. The first time I was certain I had been recognized in school as an exceptionally bright kid was when five of us in our third grade class were put in a "back of the classroom" reading group and offered seventh and eighth grade books to read and discuss. Reading was what my friends and I did poolside and for pleasure as teens during summer months -- often fiction classics or adult books from bestseller lists, rarely dimestore novels. One summer our daily poolside group read and discussed Exodus by Leon Uris; another the boys sneaked a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover from a mother's dresser drawer to pass around and read aloud. How could they resist? But the point is that books were integral to our daily lives -- we made time to read whole books and to immerse ourselves in them, not just skim a story. TV was rightfully in its place as predominantly evening entertainment in six minute segments, not a substitute for reading in deep concentration to learn complicated new things. We took that learning skill into our college classrooms, where reading was at the heart of our liberal arts educations. Without reading diligently, we would not have become grammatically adept, fluent with vocabulary and word choices, and simply able to express ourselves well, whether journalistically or evocatively or persuasively. It is a truism in academia that to write well, one must read a lot -- not for the stories, but to take stock of the writing style and use of language and figure out why one book works and another doesn't. Instead, it now seems that education in reading is like trying to revive a lost art rather than helping kids master a vital skill. When kids spend all their time staring at screens, scrolling through videos and chats, and communicating in truncated slang words and phonetic spelling, it just can't be good for them or the rest of us living a parallel experience of deep immersion in a world with profoundly complicated and often nuanced things happening minute by minute.
Bless his timid heart, Eli doesn't really fit under the upright piano. But I can't blame him for trying. We're all feeling the need to take shelter from the daily storm surge that is Donald Trump.
This is both terrifying and unsurprising. We've re-wired our brains so that we can't process or absorb information that isn't in short form video with graphics and funny quips and cool music. And I'm betting this is the case for a lot of adults, too. No wonder we elected Trump twice; we don't have the attention span or critical thinking skills or discipline to read anything more than a one or two sentence quip or to draw meaning from anything we've read.
"In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read “without complaint” as an undergraduate a decade ago.
One student confessed that the reason they didn’t finish was that they kept losing track of what the paper was about. And there’s no doubt that they’re not alone.
Jagt cites the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment results released last year. It showed that 12th grade reading scores were at the lowest level since the assessment began in 1992. Nearly a third of those 12th graders scored below the assessment’s “basic” level in reading, meaning they likely “cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text.” Younger children aren’t better off: a recent report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that 70 percent of fourth graders, or around two million kids, can’t read at a proficient level."
Why do we even listen to him anymore? We know he’s lying we know he’s a bullshitter and nothing he says it’s true. I honestly believe that if all media ignore him for one day, and not talk about him, that would bother him more than us reporting on his lies.
Cash for Copbeaters
Thank you Mr. Sykes. Yes only if we were warned that the generation attending school are struggling with the task of reading, let alone the comprehension level of what they may be reading. Heaven forbid that teachers have blown the fog horn so loud for years that nobody has listened. That maybe a drag queen or two took time to volunteer and read to kids to engage their minds so that comprehension of the story read to them came easier. That reading became something fun to do. Heaven forbid, because you know those kids need to be indoctrinated on what not to read by banning books that spark their imagination or possibly give them any excitement in reading stories.
Yea the Dummying Down of not just one generation that is attending college but the generation after them attending grade school.. The generation after that will only be able to read traffic signs if we’re lucky..
Watching his name coming off the Kennedy Center .. that’s one of that Tangerine Twatwaddle name hitting the dumpster where it belongs…
Charlie, now we know why Trump won. His followers cannot read
This weekend is a clusterfuck. Musk, Ellison and Trump's birthday party celebrating the complete corruption of Washington DC for his ego, the corruption of the government for his own greed and of course now the enjoining of Wall Street, silicon valley and the entire media landscape is worsening our ability to climb out of the CORRUPTOSPHERE because now the greedy CEOs are quite clearly sitting on top of the US taxpayers inability to climb out of debt.
Someone should ask him to stand up and see what happens.
I am uncertain if Trump has any interest in ending the war, he probably believes he is well served by dragging it out as long as possible.
Woe to the country for putting this Trump regime in office. Perhaps they abide by that passage about 'suffer little children' which I can't recall and found confusing without interpretation.
Different day same shit!
Same day different shit!
If only we had been warned...
One reason college students are struggling to read may be that public schools are being forced to do one impossible thing and one counterproductive thing. It is impossible for schools to fix student problems caused by poor parenting and socioeconomic adversity. And it is not the role of schools to teach children to embrace progressive values and causes the way they are today. Gaza and gender have no place in the classroom. Focus on basics.
It's horrifying, but not at all surprising, to consider how much has changed from a world where three-year- olds were praised lavishly for reading words on shop signs and then whole sentences in Little Golden Books, and were reading chapter books to themselves in kindergarten. Mothers declared that their kids were "smart" if they learned to read early, and how well kids were doing in elementary school was always measured heavily by reading ability. The first time I was certain I had been recognized in school as an exceptionally bright kid was when five of us in our third grade class were put in a "back of the classroom" reading group and offered seventh and eighth grade books to read and discuss. Reading was what my friends and I did poolside and for pleasure as teens during summer months -- often fiction classics or adult books from bestseller lists, rarely dimestore novels. One summer our daily poolside group read and discussed Exodus by Leon Uris; another the boys sneaked a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover from a mother's dresser drawer to pass around and read aloud. How could they resist? But the point is that books were integral to our daily lives -- we made time to read whole books and to immerse ourselves in them, not just skim a story. TV was rightfully in its place as predominantly evening entertainment in six minute segments, not a substitute for reading in deep concentration to learn complicated new things. We took that learning skill into our college classrooms, where reading was at the heart of our liberal arts educations. Without reading diligently, we would not have become grammatically adept, fluent with vocabulary and word choices, and simply able to express ourselves well, whether journalistically or evocatively or persuasively. It is a truism in academia that to write well, one must read a lot -- not for the stories, but to take stock of the writing style and use of language and figure out why one book works and another doesn't. Instead, it now seems that education in reading is like trying to revive a lost art rather than helping kids master a vital skill. When kids spend all their time staring at screens, scrolling through videos and chats, and communicating in truncated slang words and phonetic spelling, it just can't be good for them or the rest of us living a parallel experience of deep immersion in a world with profoundly complicated and often nuanced things happening minute by minute.
Bless his timid heart, Eli doesn't really fit under the upright piano. But I can't blame him for trying. We're all feeling the need to take shelter from the daily storm surge that is Donald Trump.
Iranians are very dishonorable?
Iranians have “no good faith”?
Do we know anyone in the US like this?
Well, I read everything and didn't see any "deal"..What a farce. This can not, ...er ah....better not be even close to a "deal".
This is both terrifying and unsurprising. We've re-wired our brains so that we can't process or absorb information that isn't in short form video with graphics and funny quips and cool music. And I'm betting this is the case for a lot of adults, too. No wonder we elected Trump twice; we don't have the attention span or critical thinking skills or discipline to read anything more than a one or two sentence quip or to draw meaning from anything we've read.
"In a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read “without complaint” as an undergraduate a decade ago.
One student confessed that the reason they didn’t finish was that they kept losing track of what the paper was about. And there’s no doubt that they’re not alone.
Jagt cites the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment results released last year. It showed that 12th grade reading scores were at the lowest level since the assessment began in 1992. Nearly a third of those 12th graders scored below the assessment’s “basic” level in reading, meaning they likely “cannot draw general conclusions based on concepts presented explicitly in a text.” Younger children aren’t better off: a recent report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation found that 70 percent of fourth graders, or around two million kids, can’t read at a proficient level."
Why do we even listen to him anymore? We know he’s lying we know he’s a bullshitter and nothing he says it’s true. I honestly believe that if all media ignore him for one day, and not talk about him, that would bother him more than us reporting on his lies.