Improving the weak—and weakening—reading skills of American students has been a hot topic in the edu-sphere for many years. The utter collapse of student reading skills over the past decade, which predates the absurd and deeply damaging switch to thoroughly ineffective online learning while we lost our collective minds during the Covid-19 scamdemic, has led many to focus on how to best help elementary and middle school students because illiteracy starts young—and persists throughout a despairing lifetime. However, I worry a great deal more about the failure of many high school students to transition to the more challenging reading skills they will need for college and professional careers. Life is, when you drill down a bit, actually just one big reading test, and colleges and employers are finding a increasing number of young people are incapable of engaging with challenging Read more