Post-Literate College Students

George Leef

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  • January 10, 2014

In this piece, Tom Bertonneau writes about his post-literate students, many of whom struggle with and abhor reading.

He also mentions Neil Postman's claim that literacy peaked in the U.S. around 1950. That sounds about right to me.

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