If at first you don't succeed, like, you know, just sort of repeat what, what ?
Nigel Dupree
Project Director at S.M.A.R.T. Foundation - also known as: Legin Nyleve, LeginNyleve and @l3gin on other Social Media
Of course, the data is from regular national testing just not from Mass Screening of children and excludes any break-own of barrier types whether socio-economically, other potential debilitating elements differentiating between the Haves from the Have-nots.
Over the course of centuries since the Industrial Mass Education Model was introduced following the printing-press arrived and eye-strain and vision stress resulting in "School Myopia" were diagnosed as a lifestyle environmental risk of spending prolonged periods indoors deprived of natural daylighting and working close-up.
Needless to say, in the 21st Digital Century these adverse visual health factors have been exacerbated by close-up use and operation of display screen devices with extremely bright back-lit white background to text by comparison with artificial ambient lit tradition print on white paper.
Even worse are the newer OLED screens using PWM to control dimming of the screen just increasing the level of flicker and vision stress.
Not to mention the other end of the scale with a new generation of super bright headlights contrasting against the dark of night causing glare and dazzle if not temporary blindness and the only current regulations apply to the "minimal level of Colour Contrast Validation" for websites.
But, no worries as according to the commercial interests in "Reading Science" vision as a primary sensory interface for the brain has nothing to do with learning to read or reading fluency just how reading is taught !?