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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s nothing magical about that timeframe. Literacy increased over the years, as it should have, with increasing standards of living. The question is why was there a downturn in both literacy and numeracy after that.[/quote] OP here. Yeah, I get why literacy continued to improve over the years - just wondering what happened on the opposite end.[/quote] The internet and reality tv. There wasn’t TV (or whatever) 24hrs a day. You had to actually read, we saw our parents read, we saw people on the bus and train reading, now all you see is a head down and on a phone, doesn’t matter if they are reading the WSJ or playing Minecraft.[/quote]
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