Why Kids Aren't Falling in Love With Reading - The Atlantic - 0 views
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what parents today are picking up on is that a shrinking number of kids are reading widely and voraciously for fun.
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The ubiquity and allure of screens surely play a large part in this—most American children have smartphones by the age of 11—as does learning loss during the pandemic. But this isn’t the whole story.
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A survey just before the pandemic by the National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that the percentages of 9- and 13-year-olds who said they read daily for fun had dropped by double digits since 1984
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