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Re:John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff lit... by ezequiel-garzon on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:41AM (#27728412)
Has the advent of electronic devices brought more reading and writing for the current generation? Any sources on that? I’m strongly hoping that any such study would count texting as neither reading nor writing…
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Re:John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff lit... by MattGaiser on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:48AM (#27728444)
Whether they can read a bottle of aspirin is the example in this report:

https://www.oecd.org/education/skills-beyond-school/building...

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Re:John Lewis slams UK education system and offers staff lit... by iovrthoughtthis on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:50AM (#27728451)
i would invite you to justify why reading and writing messages doesn’t constitute reading and writing, on some level.
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