A third of high school graduates (or less) are ready for college math and reading, but a majority will enroll in four-year colleges.

Should we worry that young people are spending less time reading for pleasure and a lot more time watching YouTube videos?

Let's learn from schools where disadvantaged children are becoming proficient readers.

Teachers should teach students how to read grade-level books instead of matching them with texts at their comfort level, says literacy scholar Timothy Shanahan.

The NEA's online courses favor progressive fads over teaching.

Doing what works -- and avoiding fads and ideology -- would improve learning dramatically.

Twenty percent of high school graduates have trouble reading anything more complex than a restaurant menu.

Schools want to teach "critical thinking" without teaching knowledge. It can't be done.

"Back to basics" won't help Northern schools catch up to Southern Surge states in reading. It takes a lot more.

We "think and read less, and see and feel more."

Two-thirds of Americans don't read well enough to evaluate scientific or medical claims.

Education reforms are working in the South, and they can work in blue states too, if there's political leadership.

If students don't learn facts, they won't be able to understand what they read or think deeply or critically.

Toddlers (at least some toddlers) can learn to read with help from a parent tutor, says father.

Fewer young people are reading books for pleasure.

Christian microschools are booming in Arizona, as parents use ESAs to fund the school of their choice. Chandler Fritz taught a summer reading class.

Reading scores are rising for elementary students in New York City, Indiana, Louisiana and elsewhere as schools adopt research-backed methods.

Humanities would get more respect -- and graduates would earn more -- if professors made classes harder.

While nearly all private high schools require summer reading, most public schools do not. Some ask students to listen to music or watch a movie.

Simplistic, heavily political YA books turn students off to reading.