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We’re Raising the First Generation That Can’t Read Past 400 Words
The vanishing reader: why Gen Z’s test scores are falling In 2025, the OECD released its latest PISA results. Reading, mathematics, and science scores among 15-year-olds in most Western nations fell again. The decline started around 2012. After the pandemic, it sped up. Reading took the hardest hit. PISA tracks a group it calls rushed readers. These students skim questions, do not finish texts, and guess. In 2018, 6.6 percent of students fell into that group. By 2025, 11.4 percent. The number nearly doubled.
By Jina day ago in Education
The 23rd Floor: A Medical Student’s Death and the System With No Exit
Around 1 a.m. on September 15, 2026, at the Baiyun Campus of Southern Medical University, a 23-year-old student in the eight-year clinical medicine program fell from the 23rd floor of a dormitory building.
By Jin2 days ago in Education
The Relational Ontology of Personhood. AI-Generated.
Core Thesis Reality is intelligible through ordered relation. To identify anything as a determinate thing is to locate it within distinctions, boundaries, conditions, and modes of relation that make it the kind of thing it is. A thing is not understood merely by naming that it exists. It is understood by asking what it is, where it exists, when it exists, how it exists, what relations make that mode of existence possible, and whether its mode of being rises to the level of personhood.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast3 days ago in Education
I Saved 147 Articles and Remembered Nothing. Then I Built a Cognitive System.
How to build a cognitive system when information never stops You have 147 articles saved to “Read Later.” Eight unnamed documents sit on your desktop. Your WeChat favorites are so full they will not load. At the end of the semester, you open CNKI. The search box is empty. Your mind is empty too. You have read things. You have no place to call them up from.
By Jin3 days ago in Education
AI Can Learn Everything You Do. Here’s What It Can’t Copy.
When others have learned everything you can do, what is left? In an interview room, three resumes sit on the table. HR asks the first candidate, “What was your biggest failure?”
By Jin4 days ago in Education
I Passed Five Rounds at a Big Tech Company. Then They Saw My Community College Transcript.
Five Rounds, Then an Associate’s Degree Maya Ruiz stands by the window of a Seattle apartment she has not finished unpacking. The rain is thin and persistent. It does not care. Her phone is warm against her ear. The HR voice on the other end is polite, almost pained.
By Jin5 days ago in Education
When a Classroom Becomes a Future: Andreas Szakacs and a Journey to Understand Education in Somalia
A classroom can look like an ordinary place. A few desks. A blackboard. Books stacked in a corner. Students sitting together, waiting for a lesson to begin.
By Andreas szakacs8 days ago in Education
Andreas Szakacs Travels to Somalia to Tell the Stories of Children Fighting for an Education
Andreas Szakacs Travels to Somalia to Tell the Stories of Children Fighting for an Education A documentary journey exploring education, resilience, and the dreams of children growing up against extraordinary challenges.
By Andreas szakacs10 days ago in Education
Reflexivity: The Qualitative Researcher’s Best Armour Against AI
I have been lucky to be very busy this summer. My work as a proofreader took off and I had the privilege of reading a number of PhDs. Even better, I got paid for it. This work keeps me in the loop of social research, and it makes me read outside of my areas of interest and expertise. I learn things and see how different disciplines work.
By Rachel Robbins11 days ago in Education
You Don’t Have a Research Gap. You Have a Reading Problem.
The lab meeting was over. Your advisor’s last question still hung in the air like a tack you hadn’t quite pulled out of the chair. You had indeed read them. You could even recite the abstract of that Nature paper from memory. But when you tried to distill from all that reading a single thing you could actually do, your mind went blank.
By Jin12 days ago in Education
Your University Is Stuck in 2022. You Don't Have to Be.
Andrew Ng says some universities are stuck in 2022. The professors in the audience didn’t laugh. They knew what he meant. ChatGPT was released at the end of 2022. Since then, AI has iterated every six months. A university course takes three years from proposal to classroom.
By Jin13 days ago in Education
The 500,000th Postdoc Just Outnumbered the Mules.
China's Postdoctoral Enrollment Passes 500,000 In late August 2026, the serial number ticked past 500,000. I looked up my own – 299544. That puts me somewhere around the cumulative 300,000 mark. From my number to this one, there are 200,000 people who came after.
By Jin14 days ago in Education