A new national analysis from researchers at Harvard, Stanford and Dartmouth suggests that the U.S. isn't dealing with a temporary COVID-era academic hangover. It's facing a longer-running "reading recession" that began years before the pandemic and is still weighing on students across much of the country. The researchers examined state test results from more than 5,000 school districts across 38 states and found that reading had been sliding for about a decade, with only a handful of places

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