I had just settled in for a cup of coffee this morning when this headline screamed at me on boston.com: "8 reasons why this is the dumbest generation". This feature shows the reader eight reasons Mark Bauerlein, (author of the new book: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future) gives to not trust anyone under 30.
The author is a professor of English at Emory University and he is scheduled to moderate a chat on boston.com this Wednesday at noon. While I have a number of concerns about the “8 reasons,” there is one that is jumping to the forefront:
Why host a chat about youth at noon when youth are in school and will be unable to participate?
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