Comment on Report: Literacy Rates in the United States Have Declined Significantly in the Last 30 Years
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Obligatory I didn’t read the article.
It’s obviously T9 Word’s fault. All these kids out here texting with T9 word, can’t expect anyone to be spelling when they can T9 their way through life.
FarFarAway@startrek.website 4 months ago
While I dont doubt that texting has had something to do with it, there was a shift from phonics based reading to “balanced literacy” about 30 years ago. The approach has obviously failed in a pretty horrible way.