Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

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Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Source
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What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?

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The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege. Source
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