Education World – Nicole Gorman
“A newly released annual report from Renaissance Learning called What Kids Are Reading analyzes the “reading diet” in the nation’s 9.8 million students. Among the report’s more important findings, the report found that habitual reading helps lower the achievement gap and that high school students are reading books at levels “far lower than the reading they’ll be responsible for as an adult and in workplace settings” The report also found a lack of STEM content in student’s reading diets, though it did find that more students are reading nonfiction works thanks to new standards.”(more)