Pages turn to the next chapter of youth literacy

University of California Santa Barbara cultural studies professor Constance Penley says that when it comes to literacy among youth, there’s entirely too much hand-wringing going on. “They’re reading; they’re writing,” she said, “just not in the ways we think of it.” According to Penley, we need to see video images and text messages as an evolution rather than a devolution of literacy. Read more of this article from the Ventura County Star.