Something disturbing that's becoming harder and harder to ignore is the fact that Gen Z and Gen Alpha are becoming increasingly illiterate. This was recently illustrated by a video that went viral a few weeks ago in which a high school student asked his peers if they could read a simple sentence. The sentence was... Continue Reading →
Review: Teachers and Politicians Should Take Notes from Up from Slavery (Spoilers)
Last week for my American Literature course, I read and finished Booker T. Washington's autobiography Up from Slavery, which is the story of how he grew up, was able to go to school, and eventually founded the famous Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). In my eyes, this book is completely unproblematic. It's his raw story... Continue Reading →