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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the question of why is crucial and the difficulty is the answer.  It takes work to read a lot of these older authors, their writing was a lot more complex, maybe florid if you will but the effort also enables the ability to analyze complex writing.   [b]Most popular even literary work of the last 50 years has been written at about a middle school level.[/b]  Look at most of the schools people have cited in this string, mostly elite schools.   This is why you have studies coming from the OECD that say basically large swaths of Americans can't meet basic level literacy and math, they were not taught anything with complexity, they were given worksheet after worksheet.  Not because they were dumb but our system thinks it is too much work to educate kids. [/quote]

I don't think you've been reading what I've been reading.[/quote]

What Kids Are Reading, In School And Out

Walk into any bookstore or library, and you'll find shelves and shelves of hugely popular novels and book series for kids. But research shows that as young readers get older, they are not moving to more complex books. High-schoolers are reading books written for younger kids, and teachers aren't assigning difficult classics as much as they once did.  http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2013/06/11/190669029/what-kids-are-reading-in-school-and-out
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