{"id":279,"date":"2006-11-03T09:48:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/11\/03\/postliteracy\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T14:48:22","slug":"postliteracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/11\/03\/postliteracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Postliteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Post-literate society&#8221; is not a new term, but here is an article that takes a more accepting stance. Note thesource, though!<br \/>\n<a title=\"What is the worth of words? - The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/14823087\/\">What is the worth of words? &#8211; The Practical Futurist &#8211; MSNBC.com<\/a><br \/>\nexcerpt:<br \/>\n&#8220;December 25, 2025 \u2014 Educational doomsayers are again up in arms at a new adult literacy study showing that less than 5 percent of college graduates can read a complex book and extrapolate from it.<br \/>\nThe obsessive measurement of long-form literacy is once more being used to flail an education trend that is in fact going in just the right direction. Today\u2019s young people are not able to read and understand long stretches of text simply because in most cases they won\u2019t ever need to do so. &#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Post-literate society&#8221; is not a new term, but here is an article that takes a more accepting stance. Note thesource, though! What is the worth of words? &#8211; The Practical Futurist &#8211; MSNBC.com excerpt: &#8220;December 25, 2025 \u2014 Educational doomsayers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2006\/11\/03\/postliteracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16784],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-humanities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}