Kristen Lowe
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Ray :
The literacy crisis gave us maga
2026-08-26 12:00:00
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bagelshmeer :
“When am I ever gonna use this” mentality has done such damage
2026-08-26 21:28:29
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barfymarfy :
I used to read 2 books a week all throughout high school and college. I'm now 34 and realizing I havent picked up a book in YEARS! I have started reading again a few months ago to conteract my own literacy levels dipping. I feel confident that I'm not part of the literacy crisis but I still am using this as an opportunity to better myself.
2026-08-26 12:59:40
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Nunu2024 :
I think the biggest misunderstanding is that “illiteracy” in this regard is not that people cannot READ words, but rather that they don’t COMPREHEND them. There have been so many instances on this app where someone has gotten mad at a comment I made and I’m just like “that’s not what I said” and I’ve gotten irritated and been like “i feel like you’re intentionally misconstruing my comment” until I realized…maybe they honestly didn’t understand it
2026-08-26 05:11:33
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Autumn Sunshine :
One of the best things I saw as a way to read more/get back into reading was to pick up the things that you used to love to read. Don’t be embarrassed to pick up a YA novel, or an A03 fanfic, or a romance, or comic books, or even a children’s book. Reading is reading, and it doesn’t have to be “high brow” to be beneficial.
2026-08-26 01:22:05
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hurt copain ☭ :
i 100% believe that a return to physical media would fix this, and we need to ban ALL technology use in the classroom especially the chromebook use
2026-08-26 21:29:08
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Aasha Bianca :
I’ve been teaching 15 years and I used to assign pages/articles, now I assign a paragraph with a supporting video.
2026-08-25 21:06:21
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Food_is_life :
Those of us in that top ten percent stay in that top ten percent because our parents were also in that top ten percent. Literate people raise other literate people. Healthy levels of curiosity, experimentation, and ongoing dinner table conversations make for new generations of literate people. The mindset of, "I don't even know that. You don't need to know that." begets the "It's not that deep, Bro!" mentality and every successive generation becomes exponentially more apathetic, ignorant, and illiterate
2026-08-26 23:27:50
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Skwrl :
This explains so many TikTok comments.
2026-08-27 16:15:38
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jawshands :
"compat" ✊️😔
2026-08-27 06:09:01
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olivia coy :
As someone who works in customer service, it’s so blantently obvious
2026-08-26 00:48:53
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Tom Foolery :
this is why we cant shut down ao3
2026-08-26 23:01:28
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Kade Ansel :
As a 2012 HS grad, I feel like I got on the last chopper out of ‘Nam
2026-08-27 16:29:25
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LeslieS89 :
Everyone saw that teacher’s video crying, saying that his highschool seniors can’t read or write and was like “well Covid”… no. Those students were in middle school and should have been writing 5 paragraph essays before Covid.
2026-08-26 04:03:01
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mamajawn 🧜🏻♀️ :
Lucy Calkins, Irene Fountas, and Gay Su Pinnell aren’t getting the hate they deserve for the literacy crisis.
2026-08-25 22:22:34
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Spacelily :
This fits in the timeline of when schools used more tech at a younger level. Having to put pen to paper helps with retaining what you are learning. There have been studies done on this. This isn’t the only problem it is a contributing factor. A few educators have decided to take their class back to tech free activities.
2026-08-25 21:44:16
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nat :
The documentaries on the collective cancellation of science of reading will be wild. This is the civil rights issue of our generation
2026-08-25 21:11:01
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beans :
And with all the “Have ai summarize your emails!”? yeah we are cooked
2026-09-08 14:54:38
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avocadotoast3d :
People are too comfortable being stupid
2026-08-26 22:24:49
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Rory Clark :
Becomes a breeding ground for Republicans.
2026-08-25 22:53:38
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Sara - eeee 📚 :
Every child left behind. 😭
2026-08-27 17:34:45
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hopefullydespondent :
TLDR is part of the issue. We can't focus long enough to understand something that isn't succinct enough for our shrinking attention spans. Thanks for covering this!
2026-08-26 14:09:50
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Jennifer Thomas :
People think it's mean I have/make my kid (10) read OUT LOUD to me every night before bed for 30 minutes and stop them randomly to talk about what we are reading.
2026-08-26 20:20:10
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Maddy Adams :
My 8th graders GENUINELY did not know what sane or insane meant. I had to explain it to them when we were reading the Tell Tale Hart.
2026-09-01 11:38:09
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Kara :
Along with the literacy crisis, we also have a critical thinking issue. Things like Common Core and Sight Words are a huge contributing factor to this.
2026-08-26 09:56:02
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