National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study

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Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.

Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.
Americans are reading less well – reading scores continue to worsen, especially among teenagers and young males. By contrast, the average reading score of 9-year-olds has improved.
The declines in reading have civic, social, and economic implications – Advanced readers accrue personal, professional, and social advantages. Deficient readers run higher risks of failure in all three areas.

This link has been bookmarked by 21 people . It was first bookmarked on 14 Dec 2007, by Bill Wolff.

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Keith Braafladt
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Tom Butler
decline or reading linked w/ poorer academic AND SOCIAL outcomes.\n\nthis news release about the study highlights "civic, social, and economic implications."

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- To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence,
- he compendium reveals recent declines in voluntary reading and test scores alike, exposing trends that have severe consequences for American society.
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- - "This study shows the startling declines, in how much and how well Americans read, that are adversely affecting this country's culture, economy, and civic life as well as our children's educational achievement."
  - Nearly two-thirds of employers ranked reading comprehension "very important" for high school graduates. Yet 38 percent consider most high school graduates deficient in this basic skill.⁶
    American 15-year-olds ranked fifteenth in average reading scores for 31 industrialized nations, behind Poland, Korea, France, and Canada, among others.⁷
    Literary readers are more likely than non-readers to engage in positive civic and individual activities – such as volunteering, attending sports or cultural events, and exercising.⁸
19 Feb 09

Marita Thomson
National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study

Follow-up to Reading at Risk links declines in reading with poorer academic and social outcomes

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03 Feb 09

Clay Burell
- To Read or Not To Read expands the investigation of the NEA's landmark 2004 report, Reading at Risk. While that report focused mainly on literary reading trends, To Read or Not To Read looks at all varieties of reading, including fiction and nonfiction genres in various formats such as books, magazines, newspapers, and online reading.
- Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily readers, a 14 percent decline from 20 years earlier. Among 17-year-olds, the percentage of non-readers doubled over a 20-year period, from nine percent in 1984 to 19 percent in 2004.¹
  - Clay Burell on 2009-02-03
    
    Did average homework loads go up during this time? I suspect so. If true, that's probably a huge factor. Kids are burning out, reading's aversive because it's related to too much homework.
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- - two hours a day watching TV,
    Clay Burell on 2009-02-03
    
    How much time are they spending reading online? Is TV viewing going down as the internet goes up? And won't the last three or four years - since the web 2.0 explosion - be radically different that stats for the web 1.0 years?
  - In 2007, nearly 200 communities nationwide are participating in the Big Read, reading one of 12 classic American novels such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
    Clay Burell on 2009-02-03
    
    I'm sympathetic, but skeptical. The biases of English teachers are fully exposed in the "classics" approach. Classics are less relevant to many than contemporary works. And literature is less relevant than non-fiction, which is available in hiigh-quality abundance today.
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Michel Roland
Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.

USA decline literacy nea reading report
- Americans are reading less - teens and young adults read less often and for shorter amounts of time compared with other age groups and with Americans of previous years.
- Americans are reading less well – reading scores continue to worsen, especially among teenagers and young males. By contrast, the average reading score of 9-year-olds has improved.
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- - The declines in reading have civic, social, and economic implications – Advanced readers accrue personal, professional, and social advantages. Deficient readers run higher risks of failure in all three areas.
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To Read or Not To Read gathers statistics from more than 40 studies on the reading habits and skills of children, teenagers, and adults.

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