The Reading Crisis in America: A Warning Sign for Higher Education As I stood before my Amherst College students, watching them struggle with even the most basic texts, I felt a sense of nostalgia wash over me.
For two decades, I've taught humanities and social sciences, assuming that students would tackle long, dense reading assignments easily. But this assumption has become increasingly naive.
High school English teachers assign an average of just 2. 81 full books per year, down from four in the early 2000s.