U.S. kids no longer reading for pleasure

ffreejoe76 about 4 hours ago 3 commentsRead Article on nbcnews.com

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damnesian•about 2 hours ago

The acceleration point for both age groups studied is 2012. What happened that year? The article doesn't try to answer this. Might be mentioned in the study I suppose.

fatnoah•about 1 hour ago

Possibly (probably?) a coincidence, but it did look like broad changes to how reading was taught started to land in 2010-2012: https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/common-standards-dr...

The real culprit is probably more in line with far more alternatives to reading for entertainment.

windows_hater_7•12 minutes ago

Not a rigorous response, but Minecraft.