The Reading Crisis: Why Illiteracy Threatens California’s Future and What We Can Do Now

By Lance Christensen, Sheridan Karras
09/16/2025
The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results for Grade 12 reading are out — and the numbers are grim. Only a staggering 35 percent of high school seniors nationwide were proficient in reading. Nearly one in three graduates struggles to draw basic conclusions from a text, a skill essential for everything from voting...

TAGS: literacy, student performance