Reading Anything in America?

Please excuse the divergence from technology and information sources to something as mundane and fundamental as reading, but reading is what got me into the education game. Not that this is rocket science to most of us, but the article linked below is a reminder and contains some alarming observations and statistics. Check out the column by Randy Salzman originally published in the Washington Post. For more statistics, consider this report from the National Endowment for the Arts.