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regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer
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teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated
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— diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
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At least since the invention of television, critics have warned that electronic media would destroy reading. What is different now, some literacy experts say, is that spending time on the Web, whether it is looking up something on Google or even britneyspears.org, entails some engagement with text.
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a convincing case that both kids and adults are reading fewer books
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. "Non-required" reading - ie, picking up a book for the fun of it - is down 7% since 1992 for all adults, and 12% for 18-24 year olds.
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all progress appears to halt as children enter their teenage years."
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in 1992, 43% of Americans read at an intermediate level; by 2003 the number was slightly higher at 44%. "Proficient" readers dropped slightly, from 15% to 13%.
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Odds are that you are reading these words on a computer monitor. Are you not exercising the same cognitive muscles because these words are made out of pixels and not little splotches of ink? According to the NEA you're not, because in almost every study it cites, screen-based reading is excluded from the data.
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shared by Pallin Allar on 12 Feb 14 - No Cached

when you try to get a kid to sit down and write an essay, to write something more substantial, they have a lot of difficulty with that,
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a loss when it comes to creating longer-form, story structures and paragraphs.
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