July 19, 2007

Was the Boy Wizard the Charm That Made Children's Books Fly?

The chief spokesman for this gloomy view is National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia. "This one series of popular novels has not been enough in itself to reverse the overall decline in reading," Gioia says, citing an NEA analysis of government and private studies his agency will release this fall. The problem isn't that kids aren't learning to read. It's that "everything in their society" conspires to make them read less as they become teenagers.

And that is concerning.

Read more. No really, read more. ;-)

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