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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are - The Atlantic

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What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 14:18 A t some point over the past 15 years, kids stopped reading. Or at least their teachers stopped asking them to read the way they once did. We live in the age of the reel, the story, the sample, the clip. The age of the excerpt. And even in old-fashioned literature classes, assignments have been abbreviated so dramatically that high-school English teachers are, according to one recent survey , assigning fewer than three books a year. I’ve seen the effects of this change up close, having taught English in college classrooms since 2007, and I’ve witnessed the slow

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