Sunday, July 27, 2008

Every Picture Tells a Story Don't It?

Photo credit: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times


As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.

But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.


Photo credit: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times

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