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Carrie Weatherbee
Carrie Weatherbee
Mon, 05/12/2008

Calling for Youth Responses

A reaction to a new book "The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future''
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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?  read more »

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