Pete Geren: Ask Your Child to Read to You Tonight — It Could Change Everything

In a moving op-ed, former Army Secretary Pete Geren urges parents to take a simple yet powerful step: ask your child to read to you. Geren argues that this small act can improve reading skills, strengthen the parent-child bond, and help reverse America’s deepening literacy crisis. “If we act now—parents, teachers, leaders—this generation can still thrive,” he writes.

Educators Call for Urgent Action on

Nation’s Literacy Crisis

A new report from Fox News spotlights alarming national reading data—two-thirds of fourth graders are not reading at grade level. Educators and advocates warn that this could have long-term effects on workforce readiness and economic stability. Many are calling for expanded reading intervention programs and stronger partnerships between schools and families to combat the crisis.

Good grades don’t always mean strong reading skills.  National data says most kids are falling behind in literacy.  Tonight, listen to your child read. It could tell you more than a report card ever will.

ICYMI: An essential moment from the March 25th meeting that’s worth revisiting.