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“There was a trend, it happened when COVID hit, to stop reading full-length novels because students were in trauma; we were in a pandemic. The problem is we haven’t quite come back from that,” she said. 

“当新冠疫情来袭时，出现了一种趋势，即停止阅读长篇小说，因为学生们正处于创伤之中；我们正处于大流行之中。问题是我们还没有完全恢复过来，”她说。 

Other teachers blame standardized testing and the influence of education technology. 

其他教师则将此归咎于标准化考试和教育技术的影响。 

Some students struggle to read. Only one third of fourth and eighth graders reached reading proficiency in the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress. 

有些学生读书有困难。在 2022 年国家教育进步评估中，只有三分之一的四年级和八年级学生达到了阅读水平。 

Leah van Belle is the director of the non-profit literacy coalition 313Reads in Detroit, Michigan. Van Belle said, when her son read the book Peter Pan in elementary school, it was too difficult for most children. She said her son’s school does not have a library. 

Leah van Belle 是密歇根州底特律非营利扫盲联盟 313Reads 的主任。范贝尔说，当她的儿子在小学读《彼得潘》这本书时，对大多数孩子来说太难了。她说她儿子的学校没有图书馆。 

Still, she said it makes sense for English classes to use shorter reading material. 

尽管如此，她表示英语课程使用较短的阅读材料是有意义的。 

“As an adult, if I want to learn about a topic and research it, be it personal or professional, I’m using interactive digital text to do that,” she said. “

作为一个成年人，如果我想了解一个主题并进行研究，无论是个人的还是专业的，我都会使用交互式数字文本来做到这一点，”她说。

Even in schools with many resources, time is always in short supply.