[watwut]

Except that moral panic around it has nothing to do with what actual profs in general say or think. Fairly often, it is panic about profs doing changes to courses non-professors find objectionable.

[yorwba]

At least this article is a reaction to other articles about a supposed decline in literacy that of late like to reference this study https://muse.jhu.edu/article/922346 conducted in 2015 but published 2024 where students were asked to read from Charles Dickens' Bleak House https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1023/pg1023-images.html... and explain the meaning as they went.