College professors are freaking out—Gen Z students are showing up unable to read even a single sentence without help. With nearly half of Americans skipping books altogether in 2026, teachers are ditching old-school lectures for read-alouds and line-by-line breakdowns. Some blame years of skimming for tests and AI summaries for killing deep reading. The upside? Once students get a confidence boost, they start to catch up. Is this the end of reading as we know it? #Education #GenZ #ReadingCrisis