As Gen Z ditch books at record levels, students are arriving to classrooms unable to complete assigned reading on par with previous expectations.
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“It’s not even an inability to critically think,” Jessica Hooten Wilson, a professor of great books and humanities at Pepperdine University, told Fortune. “It’s an inability to read sentences.”
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Nearly half of all Americans did not read a single book in 2025, with the habit plunging some 40% over the last decade.
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“Even when you read it in class with them, there’s so much they can’t process about the very words that are on the page.”

It must be the Boomer generations fault. We read too much thus making it uncool.