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Why were one-third of the high-school seniors tested in 2024 found not to have basic reading skills?
February 17, 2026/
If it was really true that the students couldn’t read, then it was up to me to put the books in their way and make them deal with them.
We have to do as Whitman says: Stop somewhere ahead and wait for them to catch up.
The reaction to declining reading skills, poor comprehension, and fragmented attention spans should not be to negotiate or compromise, but to double down on the cure.
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
