You’ve got to be a reader to raise a reader: My take on recent research on teens and reading

Common Sense Media recently issued a reportabout kids and teens and their reading habits.The four principal findings (I’m going to quote CSN directly) were these:

Reading rates have dropped precipitously among adolescents.
Reading achievement among older teens has stagnated.
There’s a persistent gap in reading scores between white, black, and Latino kids.
There’s also a gender gap in reading across ages.

The NY Times and NPR are both aghast at the findings, but their responses focused more on the...