November 30, 2007

Americans Are Closing the Book on Reading, Study Finds

By JENNIFER HOWARD

Americans aren't just reading fewer books, but are reading less and less of everything, in any medium. That's the doleful conclusion of "To Read or Not to Read," a report released last week by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Subtitled "A Question of National Consequence," the report piles on the bad news delivered by "Reading at Risk," the NEA's 2004 warning about the nation's rapidly declining literacy.

"The story the data tell is simple, consistent, and alarming," writes

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