Cole Hastings talks about the declining literacy in the United States, the likely causes, and ways we can help improve it on both an individual and societal level.

As aside: The whole language model of learning to read is such a backwards idea for how English works. I know some schools are still using it despite how awful of a method it is. Maybe it would work in languages with less complex vocabulary and grammar. There is more to say on the subject, but that is for the future.

Go out there and read good books folks.