Are we in a literacy crisis?
Are we raising a generation that can’t comprehend simple sentences?

Are we raising a generation that can’t comprehend simple sentences?




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A group of 130 Nigerian schoolchildren abducted last month were freed, ending a mass abduction that drew global concern.

Thousands of demonstrators in Serbia gathered in Novi Pazar on Sunday to protest government pressures on universities.

More than 8,000 candidates sat for a government exam on a runway in Odisha in India.

President Trump’s name was put on The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
The US has increasingly looked abroad to fill teaching shortages. But some educators fear uncertainty under Trump.
At least two students killed and nine others wounded in gun attack at the prestigious Ivy League university in the US.

Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said that Israel is carrying out what he calls a “scholasticide” in Gaza.

Parents in rural Nigeria still have no idea what has happened to their children weeks after kidnappers abducted 300.









After two years of war, students have returned to in-person classes at Gaza’s Islamic University.