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[quote=Anonymous][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] I think it was the expansion of entertainment options. I’m Gen X. As a child, I had access to 5 tv channels and it was mainly adult programming. I learned to read at age 3 and read constantly throughout my childhood. My Millennial and Gen Z kids read so much less. They consume a lot of online content. Some of which is just video or montages of images.[/quote] But they are way more computer literate and do few jobs require writing.[/quote]
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