{"id":252896,"date":"2026-05-22T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/technology-helps-drive-the-decline-in-student-literacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:50:22","slug":"technology-helps-drive-the-decline-in-student-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/technology-helps-drive-the-decline-in-student-literacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology helps drive the decline in student literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/technology-student-literacy-decline-comprehension\/article_be69884e-9466-465b-859b-bddb549ca85d.html\">Technology helps drive the decline in student literacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/technology-student-literacy-decline-comprehension\/article_be69884e-9466-465b-859b-bddb549ca85d.html\">https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/technology-student-literacy-decline-comprehension\/article_be69884e-9466-465b-859b-bddb549ca85d.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 17:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.postandcourier.com\">www.postandcourier.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been having a debate about book bans in recent years, but given the steep decline in student literacy, the deeper question is how anyone would notice whether a book is available in a school library or not.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times published an eye-opening report on a study by the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford documenting steep declines in student test scores, especially in reading.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 10 years, reading scores have declined in 83 percent of school districts.<\/p>\n<p>What looked like a COVID-driven catastrophe is, instead, part of a long-running trend. Reading scores were falling at a similar clip prior to the pandemic, in 2017-19, and have continued to fall into 2024. In a third of school districts, kids are reading a full grade level below where they were in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>This follows what had been a steady increase in test scores from 1990 to the 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to read is foundational to a child&#8217;s development. It enhances verbal fluency, memory, concentration and executive function. It is associated with academic success and sundry advantages throughout life. That our schools are falling down so badly on such an elemental matter is nothing less than a civilizational failure.<\/p>\n<p>Our children aren&#8217;t learning to read, in part, because we&#8217;ve forgotten how to teach them.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to jettison a commonsensical, tried-and-true method of reading instruction \u2014\u00a0phonics\u00a0\u2014 for faddish theories that haven&#8217;t worked.<\/p>\n<p>It is notable that states showing improvement between 2022-25 embraced phonics, which now goes under the rubric &#8220;the science of reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also can&#8217;t be a coincidence that these harrowing trends are playing out against the backdrop of ubiquitous screens in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Schools are starting to ban mobile phones, but the screen that they take away with one hand, they give with the other. According to a New York Times survey, 80 percent of teachers say that students at their schools have a device&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/technology-student-literacy-decline-comprehension\/article_be69884e-9466-465b-859b-bddb549ca85d.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology helps drive the decline in student literacy https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/opinion\/commentary\/technology-student-literacy-decline-comprehension\/article_be69884e-9466-465b-859b-bddb549ca85d.html Publish Date: 2026-05-22 17:30:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/postandcourier.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/0\/4a\/04a7898d-4314-4d76-97bf-34b8041114ff\/5f4faecc247ef.image.jpg?crop=463%2C463%2C248%2C11&resize=200%2C200&order=crop%2Cresize","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252898,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252896\/revisions\/252898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}