The Dumbest Generation
By Mark Bauerlein
By Mark Bauerlein
By Mark Bauerlein
By Mark Bauerlein
Category: Nonfiction
Category: Nonfiction
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$18.00
May 14, 2009 | ISBN 9781585427123
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May 15, 2008 | ISBN 9781440636899
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Praise
“If you’re the parent of someone under 20 and read only one non-fiction book this fall, make it this one. Bauerlein’s simple but jarring thesis is that technology and the digital culture it has created are not broadening the horizon of the younger generation; they are narrowing it to a self-absorbed social universe that blocks out virtually everything else.”
-Don Campbell, USA Today
“An urgent and pragmatic book on the very dark topic of the virtual end of reading among the young.”
-Harold Bloom
“Never have American students had it so easy, and never have they achieved less. . . . Mr. Bauerlein delivers this bad news in a surprisingly brisk and engaging fashion, blowing holes in a lot of conventional educational wisdom.”
-Charles McGrath, The New York Times
“It wouldn’t be going too far to call this book the Why Johnny Can’t Read for the digital age.”
–Booklist
“Throughout The Dumbest Generation, there are . . . keen insights into how the new digital world really is changing the way young people engage with information and the obstacles they face in integrating any of it meaningfully. These are insights that educators, parents, and other adults ignore at their peril.”
-Lee Drutman, Los Angeles Times
Table Of Contents
The Dumbest GenerationPreface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction
One. Knowledge Deficits
Two. The New Bibliophobes
Three. Screen Time
Four. Online Learning and Non-Learning
Five. The Betrayal of the Mentors
Six. No More Culture Warriors
Bibliography
Index
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