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5 months

Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read

futurism.com

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/9268729

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    The first generation of digital natives is arriving in higher education with major shortcomings in literacy rates.
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    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      5 months

      Before anyone starts to mount their high horse, let’s focus on the important paragraph in the article.

      It’s worth pausing here to point out that you can’t really blame younger people for struggling at what were once seen as academic basics. The school system is in shambles, their education was bisected by the COVID pandemic, and they’re been reared in a world that’s increasingly deemphasized reading in favor of videos, voiceovers, and other emerging forms of communication.

      I can gurantee that most children of affluent families suffer less from this. Most of my colleagues in tech spent fortunes in private schools, private online education during covid, and academic training for their kids. Their kids are already interning at companies owned by others in their circles as freshmen. The gap between haves and have-nots is expanding at a truly alarming rate.

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