How Can We Coax More Americans To Read?

Basically? Americans are clueless about how reading works, so they train people badly. We need to spread more basic knowledge about how the world works, because that’s the only way to fill in the gaps that all writers leave. And we need to (this is a real surprise) fix standardized testing. “If topics are random, the test weights knowledge learned outside the classroom — knowledge that wealthy children have greater opportunity to pick up.”