The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school. - Rose

...This development puzzled Dames until one day during the fall 2022 semester, when a first-year student came to his office hours to share how challenging she had found the early assignments. 

Lit Hum often requires students to read a book, sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a week or two. 

• But the student told Dames that, at her public high school, she had never been required to read an entire book. 

She had been assigned excerpts, poetry, and news articles, but not a single book cover to cover.
“My jaw dropped,” Dames told me...