The results, from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, long regarded as the nation’s most reliable, gold-standard exam, showed that about a third of the 12th-graders who were tested last year did not have basic reading skills. (View Highlight)
Only about a third of 12th graders are leaving high school with the reading and math skills necessary for college-level work (View Highlight)
Over the last decade, both adults and children began to replace reading time with screen time, social media and, increasingly, streaming video. (View Highlight)