Also media is constantly expressing how the United States in general is falling behind other nations in core subjects such as math and reading. The Forbes article "Are New York City Students Getting Smarter Or Are Regents Exams Getting Easier?" by James Marshall Crotty, expresses how accredits a confidential source saying that New York State has been steadily lowering the difficulty of its standardized testing in order for more students to receive a state-certified high school diploma. Although these statistics and speculations support the fact that the nation is becoming increasingly dumber it is not explicitly due to a lack of reading. I do not support this article because Gary Earl Ross harshly blames the nations dumbness on their laziness to not read a book as he states "Lack of time is no excuse." The mere title of the article is a harsh accusation. Personally I think that Ross is too confident in his own opinion. He says "The principal reason for our collective stupidity is that we choose not to read, especially literature---novels, poems and plays." expressing that he believes since he is a professor he can undoubtably pin point the nations increased dumbness to a laziness
Also media is constantly expressing how the United States in general is falling behind other nations in core subjects such as math and reading. The Forbes article "Are New York City Students Getting Smarter Or Are Regents Exams Getting Easier?" by James Marshall Crotty, expresses how accredits a confidential source saying that New York State has been steadily lowering the difficulty of its standardized testing in order for more students to receive a state-certified high school diploma. Although these statistics and speculations support the fact that the nation is becoming increasingly dumber it is not explicitly due to a lack of reading. I do not support this article because Gary Earl Ross harshly blames the nations dumbness on their laziness to not read a book as he states "Lack of time is no excuse." The mere title of the article is a harsh accusation. Personally I think that Ross is too confident in his own opinion. He says "The principal reason for our collective stupidity is that we choose not to read, especially literature---novels, poems and plays." expressing that he believes since he is a professor he can undoubtably pin point the nations increased dumbness to a laziness