Our kids won't have to worry about "reading comprehension" in standardized tests

Thanks to internet, information is getting created like crazy (for example, this post took me just 20 minutes to write). Information is really making our life difficult; I think, we (in general) want to be able to do mainly two things with the information we consume, quick recall and recap:

• Quick recall: We get loads of information and then we are asked a question that can be answered with the information we just read. Our power to recall gets diminished if we consume more information than we can process and if the information wasn't presented that well. 
  
  So, information from a good source is to our rescue because good content sources are crisp and to the point. I understand that “recalling” is an individual’s ability, but by all means, information can be written in such a way that it is easily re-callable. 

•  Recap: sometimes you attend a meeting or finish reading a book and then you are asked to give a summary/recap of all that. A recap is mainly the crux of the article/meeting; it outlines the bottom-line but doesn't tell you how you got there or why is it correct…and other such details. At the end of a meeting or at the end of any content,  if the author/host gives you a recap, you feel much better about the content you just consumed. 
  
  Good content helps you with recap. For instance, read McKinsey Quarterly articles, you’ll almost always see that the last two paragraphs give a recap of the entire 3 page case study. In other words, McKinsey Quarterly is good content that I am ready to pay for.

With that, I want to say that we stress a lot on one’s skill to comprehend difficult passages/content (duh! That’s why we have reading comprehension in our standardized tests). I think, with the way information is getting created online (and offline), comprehending difficult passages is not the skill-of-the-hour, writing passages that are easily comprehensible is. 

So, the ability to comprehend difficult passages is great, but the ability to write easily comprehensible passages is even greater. If we all can write better, the content we consume (regularly) will be easily comprehensible, which invariably will make our work-life easy. And, of course, our kids won’t have to worry about reading comprehension in their standardized tests.