Why Everyone Stopped Reading - Shelly Swearingen

"College students are telling their professors they can't read whole books. Americans are reading fewer and fewer books each year. If we want to figure out why reading is declining, we need to look at how we teach reading and how we spend our time." - Jared Henserson

Video from Shelly Swearingen

Why Everyone Stopped Reading - Shelly Swearingen

"The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books By Rose Horowitch

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

Nicholas Dames has taught Literature Humanities, Columbia University’s required great-books course, since 1998. He loves the job, but it has changed. Over the past decade, students have become overwhelmed by the reading. College kids have never read everything they’re assigned, of course, but this feels different. Dames’s students now seem bewildered by the thought of finishing multiple books a semester. His colleagues have noticed the same problem. Many students no longer arrive at college—even at highly selective, elite colleges—prepared to read books..." from the article: The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books By Rose Horowitch

Why everyone stopped reading.

Video from Jared Henderson

"College students are telling their professors they can't read whole books. Americans are reading fewer and fewer books each year. If we want to figure out why reading is declining, we need to look at how we teach reading and how we spend our time." from the video introduction

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