Hardly. The author establishes that reading is a challenge and then attributes it to a multitude of challenges including smartphones, COVID and “broader cultura

Hardly. The author establishes that reading is a challenge and then attributes it to a multitude of challenges including smartphones, COVID and “broader cultural trends over which educators have little control” and balanced literacy approaches. I submit its common core primarily that is causing the damage. I don’t think your criticism is on point. I may not be writing well, but I think what I’m saying is largely different and certainly more single problem oriented. Academics LOVE to sprinkle in a little of this, and a little of that to explain the problem. But the truth is not as complicated: common core is causing a decline in educational outcomes. It’s a crap way to teach kids and it should be tossed in the bin and power given back to teachers to teach and trust put back into professionals being able to teach better than centrally budgeted bureaucracy. I could be narrow. I could be wrong. But I don’t think I’m missing the point I’m trying to make.