Education

A literature professor talks like this?!

"It’s not even an inability to critically think -- it's an inability to read sentences."

What she means, I suppose, is "I can't teach analysis because they can't read full sentences."

The length of a work -- book, novel, short story, blog post, poem, song lyrics -- does not make it more or less worthy of a serious approach. Kids read all day long so what we are really dealing with is that kids won't stop reading one format for long enough periods of time to read novels (?) Studies show that "children who spent more time sending text messages had greater reading comprehension."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5036529/

"leaving colleges no choice but to lower their expectations" They could flunk them. They could steer them toward a good trade school. Plumbers make decent money.