NEA's Reading at Risk Redux
By Robert Gray
In July, NEA chairman Dana Gioia announced the dismal results of a survey of America's reading habits, including the news that those people admitting to having read fiction, poetry, or plays had dipped to 46.7 percent in 2002, down from 54 percent the last time the survey was done in 1992.
A copy of the study still rests on my desk, taunting me.