A comprehensive study released by the National Endowment for the Arts on November 19 finds that Americans are reading less, and also less well. Key findings include that on average Americans between the ages of 15 and 24 spend almost two hours a day watching TV, but only seven minutes on leisure reading, and that “reading scores for American adults of almost all education levels have deteriorated, notably among the best-educated groups.” The NEA’s study--entitled To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence--reports that between 1992 and 2003, “the percentage of adults with graduate school experience who were rated proficient in prose reading dropped by 10 points, a 20 percent rate of decline.” Click here to review the entire document.