Literacy Falls for Graduates From College, Testing Finds - New York Times

With two notable exceptions, blacks and Asians, Americans are sadly becoming less literate. What's a nation to do?

After A Nation at Risk, the prominent 1983 report on American education, from the National Commission on Excellence in Education, and all the sturm und drang generated by the report, we have lost our progress toward a more educated America, at least as measured by literacy.

In the face of this decline, we still have many in the education establishment railing against the testing required in the No Child Left Behind Act.

We can and should do better.