Ed Surge – Mary Hossfeld
“These days would-be readers are wooed by screen time, book time and everything in between. But has the proliferation of tablets impacted young children’s ability to read or their interest in opening up a good book? The Guardian’s Stuart Dredge asks these and other questions, and in the process takes a long and leisurely stroll through the shifting landscape of early childhood literacy. The numbers tell a conflicting story. A recent UK study suggests that 41.4% of 8- to 18-year-olds read daily outside of class in 2014, up from 29.1% in 2010. But according to publisher Scholastic, in the same time period a declining percentage of American youth reported that they like to read books for fun.”(more)