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<p>She does not exaggerate. I can confirm that in my State, most students in the typical mid-level suburban high school – not either extreme of the high-performing public or the most abysmally impacted of the urban schools – are not being taught to read and think critically. It is not happening. Increasingly in my job I encounter students who cannot do college level work, despite earning decent grades and an average score on the SAT. If it’s not a crisis now, it will become a crisis, and soon. </p>
<p>And I have said this before, I’ll say it again: The nation, yes the nation, is not reading. An utter fixation on quick media has changed the country’s taste for patience and completeness, and the preoccupation with animated visuals is also affecting this tolerance. My students are not reading; their parents are not reading. (You know, books: those antiquated, fanciful, charmingly anachronistic relics from the golden age of literacy.)</p>
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