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Our Screen Culture Increasingly Can’t Read

Updated 5 days ago
New York Post
National Review
2 articles2 sources
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Over the past ten years, reading scores have declined in 83 percent of school districts. This cluster currently includes 2 articles from 2 sources.

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This cluster currently includes 2 articles from 2 sources. Sources in this event include National Review, New York Post.

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Elementary students are pictured writing dictation during class in the classroom.
New York Post
New York Post
Leaning right
5/15/2026

How our schools’ foolishness is courting ‘civilizational failure’

We’ve been having a debate about “book bans” in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how any child would even notice whether a book is available in a school library. The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford recently published an eye-opening study documenting.

Our Screen Culture Increasingly Can’t Read | National Review
National Review
National Review
Strongly right
5/15/2026

Our Screen Culture Increasingly Can’t Read

Over the past ten years, reading scores have declined in 83 percent of school districts.