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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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First, teens don't know their history! Next, Joe brings us a fascinating story about a researcher, Sam Kriss, and his article on the decline of literacy, "Reading is Magic".

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.0	There was an article about how reading is so important, but it was too long, so I didn't read it.
0:08.9	It's one more thing.
0:10.9	Armstrong and Getty.
0:12.1	One more thing.
0:13.6	Speaking of books, I just saw this up on the screen.
0:16.4	Let me screen capture so we can talk about it tomorrow.
0:18.9	Oh.
0:19.9	13% of eighth graders are proficient in U.S. history.
0:24.2	They did that study coming up on the 250th birthday of the country.
0:29.0	My own eighth grader was complaining yesterday.
0:32.3	He was looking forward to the chapter.
0:35.3	It ended up being a page.
0:36.9	He was looking forward to learning about the Civil War.
0:39.1	They barely talked about it at all.
0:41.4	Gettysburg got like a mention in the fact that Lincoln gave a speech called the Gettysburg
0:45.5	address.
0:45.8	That was the sum total of that.
0:47.2	And all the rest of it was about how the Native Americans were affected by the Civil War.
0:51.6	And my son, who's super into history, so he's watched hours and hours of YouTube videos
0:57.8	about the founding and the Civil War and all this sort of stuff.
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