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Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure (www.theguardian.com)

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Children's reading enjoyment has fallen to its lowest level in almost two decades, with just one in three young people saying that they enjoy reading in their free time, according to a new survey.

Only 34.6% of eight- to 18-year-olds surveyed by the National Literacy Trust (NLT) said that they enjoy reading in their spare time. This is the lowest level recorded by the charity since it began surveying children about their reading habits 19 years ago, representing an 8.8 percentage point drop since last year.

It is also part of a broader downward trend since 2016, when almost two in three children said that they enjoyed reading.

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[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

lmao, the article is about the UK

if you would like to criticize American education anyway, perhaps we could find a nice article about that subject together

*edit: here you are

**edit 2, i still don't want to talk about your teacher @Vodulas@beehaw.org 😜

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i still don’t want to talk about your teacher @Vodulas@beehaw.org 😜

That's fair. I will say, it is also true in the US, and seems to be going down faster here. This is from 2021, but still

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/11/12/among-many-u-s-children-reading-for-fun-has-become-less-common-federal-data-shows/

[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seeing as the US is a transcontinental slave empire, it does make sense that they wouldn't emphasize literacy among their populace.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

In that vein the UK isn't better. Colonialism and all that.

[–] Vodulas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

I think you are mistaking criticism for district mandated curricula for criticism of teachers. If anything, my comment was more critical of teachers, but also that was about teachers when I was in high school