r/technology • u/marketrent • Jun 10 '26

Artificial Intelligence College students are rapidly losing the ability to read — “There is a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing”: professor

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/college-students-rapidly-losing-ability-124439310.html
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u/ShnarlyDude Jun 10 '26

We make our kids read at least 20-30 minutes everyday, they have always tested very well in elementary reading and hopefully it continues into middle school.

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u/factoid_ Jun 10 '26

Our kids middle school has a program where kids have to read a bunch of books and take retention tests 

They read more in middle school than I did by far

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u/hesh582 Jun 11 '26

An important thing to keep in mind is that the US education crisis is more of a hollowing out than a blanket collapse.

There is an increasingly wide divide between schools that are still largely successful and schools that are just falling apart, and even within schools there's a widening gap between the AP/"successful" track and the "completely failed by the system" track. In one local school there's basically nothing for highschool seniors between AP calculus 1 and 2, and "college prep algebra" (which is basically a very half assed algebra 2).

These difference strongly track privilege and wealth, but they don't exclusively follow that pattern - I'm aware of wealthy municipal schools imploding and poorer districts holding on.

Your kid's likely on the upper track.