Why Have We Gotten Worse at Reading?

Over the past few decades, we have all collectively gotten worse at reading. Is our ever-increasing screen time part of the problem? Or could new technology actually help us raise better readers? According to Susan Neuman (steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/susan-neuman), a specialist in early literacy development and a professor at NYU, it’s a bit of both.

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