I appreciate that you're looking into why kids are illiterate… but a long winding "won't tell you yet!" podcast series where you can't just sit down and read the fucking article and evidence, is FOR ILLITERATES.
It's hard to monetize text, while it's much easier to tell us about inflatable mattresses and QuadrangleVoid, the all-in-one website builder, but the financial incentives against literacy suggest school's not the only problem.
#literacy #books
I talked about this back in 2022 when I first listened to it, and I want to share it again. According to the National Literary Institute, almost 70% of low-income fourth grade students cannot read at a basic level, and compared to 40% overall. “Sold a Story” is a series of articles and podcasts interviewing and discussing how children learn how to read and the political discourse that ended up leaving so many children feeling like they’d never be “good enough” to be a reader. I’m sharing it again as they are releasing some more episodes responding to the reception of their original season. I highly recommend it to anyone who has ever struggled to learn how to read or are worried about kids in their communities getting the chance to do so too.
https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
#podcast #education #literacy
Learning Is More Than Just Collecting Facts
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/learning-is-more-than-just-collecting-facts
🚗💸 Oh no, Americans are #defaulting on auto loans! Must be because they finally realized buying a car you can't afford isn't actually a good investment. Who knew? 🙄
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/17/us-car-repossessions-economy #autoLoans #financial #literacy #badInvestments #carBuying #HackerNews #ngated
🥱 Brace yourself for the groundbreaking revelation that anyone with a Wi-Fi connection can actually, wait for it, *check facts* online! 🙄 In a world where your uncle still believes chain emails, this blog suggests that basic fact-checking is an Olympic-level sport. 🏅
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/i-have-no-facts-and-i-must-scream/ #factchecking #online #misinformation #WiFi #awareness #digital #literacy #chainemails #HackerNews #ngated
GRead: Theo dõi đọc sách, thống kê và race nhóm! Đăng ký miễn phí, bibliothèque sách, cập nhật tiến độ. Có feature mới: badge, bảng xếp hạng, game nhóm. Mời bạn đãi thử, mình cung cấp badge uniquely! #GRead #Ch sauh Đọc #SideProject #ReadingTracker #Literacy
La subasta del vino en Sonoma recauda un millón de dólares para alfabetización infantil https://www.vinetur.com/2025101592214/sonoma-wine-celebration-raises-nearly-dollar1-million-for-childrens-literacy-down-from-last-years-dollar16-million.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SubastaDeVino #Sonoma #AlfabetizaciónInfantil #Educación #Literacy
Celebrate #FilipinoAmericanHeritageMonth with some of our favorite titles by talented Filipino authors and illustrators.
You can help us give more of these wonderful books to the children who need them most by donating a selection from our curated #FilipinoAmericanHeritageMonth Wishlist!
Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, and Donate!
#ChildrensBookProjectSF #NorCalNonProfit #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BooksForKeeps #Literacy #GreatNonProfit #Donate #BookReview #LovetoRead #WeNeedDiverseBooks #BooksSaveLives #DiverseBks4All #NationalBookAccessAssociation #Bookstagram
"In 2008, nearly 796 million adults (17% of the adult population worldwide) could neither read nor write. […] in Sub-Saharan Africa 10 countries account for 72% of adult illiterates in the world […] 30.7 million children go without schooling [over global 258M on the 1.5B total - https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000370721 ]"
#sdg4 #sdgs #literacy #africa #children #humanrights
Data report:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meetdocs/2014_2019/documents/acp/dv/8-education_/8-education_en.pdf
America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/education-decline-low-expectations/684526/
#HackerNews #America #Illiteracy #Education #Decline #Literacy #Crisis #Awareness
We're celebrating #FilipinoAmericanHeritageMonth with the vibrant picture book “Our Nipa Hut” by author Rachell Abalos and illustrator Gabriela Larios.
An adorable story about how a father and daughter take care of their home — a stilt house of bamboo and palm leaves — with their neighbors before and after the powerful storms of the Philippines.
Learn more about what we do at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, and Donate, and see the review of this book and more on our website Reviews page!
#ChildrensBookProjectSF #NorCalNonProfit #GiveBooks #KidsBooks #BooksForKeeps #Bookstagram #Literacy #GreatNonProfit #Donate #BookReview #LovetoRead #WeNeedDiverseBooks #BooksSaveLives #DiverseBks4All #NationalBookAccessAssociation
Librarians are sharing the most unhinged promotional videos and people can't get enough
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/library-unhinged-promotional-videos
🤖🧠 Researchers at Wiley found that scientists' trust in #AI dropped significantly in 2025 despite increased usage, with concerns about hallucinations rising from 51% to 64%. The study shows that professionals who understand AI best are becoming most skeptical, contradicting the hype around its capabilities.
👉 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-research-scientists-hype
#science #technology #tech #research #literacy #data #education
>>Though potentially capable of understanding basic vocabulary and short texts well enough to perform simple tasks like filling out forms, an estimated 560,000 Oklahomans fall below the state/national average literacy level and find it difficult to synthesize more than one source of written information, make low-level inferences, or paraphrase. <<
https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/10/09/do-one-in-five-oklahomans-struggle-with-low-literacy-or-functional-illiteracy/
#Oklahoma #Literacy #Illiteracy #OklahomaWatch
> Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/13/nx-s1-5571050/social-media-teens-brains-reading-memory
Crazy talk, I know, but hear me out. Maybe, just maybe, have the kids put the fucking devices down and read a book or two.
"If you want to sell someone something, you first have to convince them that they need it. This rationalization is the likely source of a fundamental myth of the American public school system: that before the proliferation of compulsory, tax-payer funded schooling, Americans were ignorant and mostly illiterate."
"Authority will always try to convince you how helpless and bereft you would be without the authority. Americans were neither illiterate nor ignorant before forced schooling. Compulsory, tax-payer funded education has not been an overall improvement for the population, despite the billions of dollars and wasted hours spent on it. To claim Americans need government schools to learn is a grab for power and control, and ignores centuries’ worth of data and lived experience."https://renegadeeducator.com/the-american-myth-of-illiteracy-how-education-worked-before-taxpayer-funded-schooling/
#Media is converging towards a #singleform: a continuous #stream of #shortformvideo, akin to television. This shift is driven by the allure of endless content and the dominance of platforms like #YouTube and #TikTok, which prioritise #flow over individual #content. The trend has the potential to exacerbate #loneliness and contribute to a decline in #literacy and #numeracy. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television?eicker.news #tech #media #news
#Media is converging towards a #singleform: a continuous #stream of #shortformvideo, akin to television. This shift is driven by the allure of endless content and the dominance of platforms like #YouTube and #TikTok, which prioritise #flow over individual #content. The trend has the potential to exacerbate #loneliness and contribute to a decline in #literacy and #numeracy. https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everything-became-television?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
1808 in Canada
#CanadianHistory
To be established in Quebec City: "An Academy for the instruction of all Members [elected] to serve in the ensuing House of Assembly" who can't read or write
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3660702
pg. 166 (3rd column)
Watch our newest free webinar! Media literacy experts on both sides of the Atlantic present short seminars on advancing media literacy through library work, particularly considering the ongoing impact of news on media literacy. https://youtu.be/p1FQHYs8dk8?si=fDxsRcUHLv3ahZwe
