A Digital Garden

Tag: reading

  • Good news out of Mississippi!

    “And everybody knows about Mississippi goddam”– Nina Simone A massive surge in children’s literacy in my home state! Perhaps more noticeable than how exciting that is is how grim the numbers look in other states: 41% of public school 4th graders in California cannot read at a basic level. Not good. This good news doesn’t travel far and…

  • The dawn of the post literate society

    This blog had me agreeing on the surface throughout but after finishing it I was skeptical of a theory this grand. The data is all there and again, very agreeable as you read it. But, you check in with yourself after and you go, ‘who do I know that is like this?’ and the answer…