Amid a deepening literacy crisis, there’s been a focus on how to close the achievement gap, but Natalie Wexler sees the key problem undermining the American educational system a little differently.

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India, Jan. 20 -- If anyone doubted the waning of reading habits, they only needed to visit the New Delhi International World Book Fair. The public response was overwhelming and so was publisher ...