How Modern Schools Make Terrible Writers (Deliberately)
If you're interested in joining my new book club, you can find more information here: https://www.hilarylayne.com/p/coming-... I hope you can join us! The American education system definitely has problems, but what if those problems have also killed modern writers' ability to write well? Why is everyone so reliant on Chat GPT and Grammarly? Why can't anyone write well? To answer, we have to go back to school... Here is the page on my website where I have collected all the sources, as well as additional sources: https://www.hilarylayne.com/p/very-ca... Here is the link to the October Reading Recommendation List: https://bookshop.org/lists/october-re... And also my bookshop.com affiliate link: https://bookshop.org/shop/hilarylayne (I apologize for the video quality this time. My computer declared war on me for about 12 hours.) 0:00 - The Problem 5:37 - Education Is Failing 6:25 - Critical Literacy 9:33 - Real Literacy Is Dying 17:00 - "Critical Literacy": Generative Words/Themes 19:05 - Is Phonics Better? 26:49 - The Neurology of Literacy 29:40 - Critical Literacy Adults 39:48 - Critical Literacy Writers 42:07 - "Prosody" 48:55 - What Should We Do About It?

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