#literacy-decline

#literacy-decline

Public tracking and gamified reading goals risk turning reading into a competitive, metric-driven activity that can undermine enjoyment, deep engagement and sustainable reading habits.

College students increasingly lack basic sentence-level reading skills, forcing professors to lower expectations and adopt remedial pedagogies.

Shared early reading boosts happiness, educational success, empathy and social mobility and must be expanded due to falling child reading rates and limited parental reading.

The Pleasure List will compile irresistible book recommendations to entice reluctant readers and help reverse declining reading-for-pleasure and literacy rates in the UK.