Even students at Columbia are saying they can’t read a book in a week.
One told her professor she’d never been assigned a full book in school.
This isn’t just a student issue—it’s the result of education reforms that prioritized standardized testing over reading comprehension and stamina.
As Jared Henderson points out, students were taught how to extract info from excerpts—not how to engage deeply with ideas.
Now higher-ed is paying the price.
It’s time to reform the system—top to bottom.
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