Column: Literacy: When reading ends, learning ends

Our young people are facing a literacy crisis. As an English teacher, I used to start every school year surveying students about their favorite books. Over the past four years, however, I had to amend the question to, “Who likes to read?” What used to be 15 raised hands in each class has dwindled down to one or two.

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