Credentialled but Illiterate: The Reading Crisis at the Heart of Education

Commentary In his trenchant essay, “The Average College Student Is Illiterate,” Hilarius Bookbinder sounds the alarm over the precipitous decline in student literacy. It is a sobering account. Bookbinder (a pseudonym) teaches in the humanities and draws upon years of classroom experience. He observes that many of his students are functionally illiterate in that they […]