5 Reasons Why U.S. Illiteracy Rates are Rising That No One Reads About
Students in the United States are struggling to read at a basic level, and it’s a growing problem. The rising illiteracy rates in the United States are startling, if not outright worrisome. According to a September 2025 article by The Harvard Gazette, “40-percent of fourth graders and about a third of eighth graders” are failing to meet even the basic level of reading proficiency. Think about that for a second. One […]