The Dumbest Generation

“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

Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University. He previously served as the director of Research and Analysis at the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was responsible for studies concerning American culture and life. He currently resides in Atlanta with his family.

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