Going Off Book

College lit courses often require “students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.” Rose Horowitch on a trend I’ve seen play out in my kids’ high school education, one that is shocking college professors. The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books. (Soon, young people won’t be able to concentrate enough to watch the Netflix series based on the book.)