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The New Literacy

Posted September 22, 2009 10:30 AM

From Neatorama:

New technologies are often blamed for the "dumbing-down" of new generations, but it's hard to see that any generation is "dumber" than the one before it in a historical context. Professor Andrea Lunsford of Stanford University studied college students' writing and how it changed from 2002 to 2006.

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09/23/2009 1:36 PM

I think comparing stanford students to the population as a whole is a big mistake. MY experience as a community college teacher does not match up with this report.

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