[literacy, education... rp] wow....How Modern Schools Make Terrible Writers (Deliberate... so this came across my feed... the tldr is, kids aren't so much being taught to understand what they're reading, but to skim for keywords, and then to assume.
[on hope, healthy emotional self-regulation; positive things within] I know there's bad stuff going on, and it can make things hard. but there's also good things too, and reasons to keep going, and ways to help.