Some Good News about Reading from the NEA
This past Monday, the National Endowment for the Arts released some promising findings about the reading habits of Americans, showing that for the first time in 25 years, the percentage of adults reading literature increased over the previous study. (Studies have been done five times since 1982, which is why this phrasing is ...
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NEA Reading at Risk Follow-up
Last week, the NEA announced the release of To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, a “new and comprehensive analysis of reading patterns in the United States.” Of course, we all already know the bad news—people are reading less. Less than one-third of 13-year-olds are daily ...
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Even More on Reading in America
NPR chimes in on the Reading in America debate with this piece on why women read more than men. I take it for granted that women do read more than men, but every time I see one of these studies, the numbers still astound me. When it comes to fiction, the gender gap is at its widest. Men account for only 20 percent of ...
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More on Reading in America (And Elsewhere)
Scott Esposito at Conversational Reading took up the recent AP-Ispos findings, comparing the finding that the average American reads 4 books a year to other countries (the U.S. comes out well in this, but there are reasons) and pointing to economics as one of the issues adding to this statistic. If people who read 50 or ...
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