Hacker News with Generative AI: Literacy

Are we becoming a post-literate society? (ft.com)
Are we becoming a post-literate society?
For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege (businessinsider.com)
For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege
Scores for adults are dropping on tests of basic skills (nataliewexler.substack.com)
An international test of adults’ “basic skills” shows that an increasing number of Americans are struggling to do moderately complex tasks that involve reading and math.
Survey: Growing number of U.S. adults lack literacy skills (nbcnews.com)
The share of adults with literacy skills at the lowest measured levels increased substantially as the gap between the high-skilled and low-skilled in the U.S. expands, according to new data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ latest survey of adult skills.
US Literacy Statistics 2022-2023 (thenationalliteracyinstitute.com)
Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children
The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books (theatlantic.com)
To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.
How a flawed idea is teaching kids to be poor readers (2019) (apmreports.org)
About 130 million adults in the U.S. have low literacy skills (2022) (apmresearchlab.org)