Why Read?
Charlie Rose’s “A Discussion about the History and Future of Books”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FAjTYB0cl8
the Library of Congress’ “Books That Shaped America”
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/
Kidd and Castano’s “Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind”
http://www.newschool.edu/pressroom/pressreleases/2013/CastanoKidd.htm
Laura Schocker’s “7 Unconventional Reasons Why You Absolutely Should Be Reading Books”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/12/health-benefits-reading_n_4081258.html
Micah Mattix’s “Why Read Literature?”
http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2013/08/why-read-literature
Neil Gaiman’s “Why Our Future Depends on Libraries, Reading, and Daydreaming”
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming
Annie Murphy Paul’s “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer”
http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/03/why-we-should-read-literature/
Julia Ryan “Reading a Novel Changes your Brain”
Michael Rosenwald’s “Serious Reading Takes a Hit from Online Scanning and Skimming”
Laura Miller’s “Is Reading Antisocial?”
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/16/is_reading_anti_social/
Emily Temple’s “50 Incredible Novels Under 200 Pages”
http://flavorwire.com/451825/50-incredible-novels-under-200-pages/view-all/
American Library Association’s “Frequently Challenged Books”
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks
Frank Bruni’s “Read, Kids, Read”
Colin McEnroe’s “If You Give a Kid a Book They Want, They Will Read it”
http://wnpr.org/post/if-you-give-kid-book-they-want-theyll-read-it
Laurel Killough’s “Role Modeling Reading—How To Reverse a Trend of Kids Who Hardly Read”
http://blogcea.org/2014/05/13/role-modeling-reading-how-to-reverse-a-trend-of-kids-who-hardly-read/
Bijan Stephen’s “You Won’t Believe How Little Americans Read”
http://time.com/2909743/americans-reading/
Erin Blakemore’s “27 Percent of US Adults Didn’t Read a Book Last Year”
International Reading Association’s “Position Statement on Leisure Reading”
http://www.reading.org/Libraries/position-statements-and-resolutions/ps1082_leisure_reading.pdf
Lauren Martin’s “Why, Scientifically, Readers Are the Best People to Fall in Love with”
David Masciotra’s “Pulling the Plug on English Departments”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/pulling-the-plug-on-english-departments.html
Amy Ellis Nutt’s “The best reason for reading? Book readers live longer, scientists say.”
Teddy Wayne’s “Our (Bare) Shelves, Our Selves”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/fashion/our-bare-shelves-our-selves.html?_r=0
Ferris Jabr’s “The Reading Brain in the Digital Age”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/
Ceridwen Dovey’s “Can Reading Make You Happier?”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/can-reading-make-you-happier
Chicago Tribune’s “A Novel Approach: Bringing Books into the 21st Century”
Pamela Paul and Maria Russo’s “How to Raise a Reader”
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/books/how-to-raise-a-reader?mcubz=1
Maria Russo’s “Want to Riase Your Child to Love Reading?”
Philip Yancey’s “The Death of Reading is Threatening to the Soul”
Maureen Paschal’s “Are Summer Reading Assignments Messing with your Kids’ Summer?”
Christopher Bergland’s “Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid?”
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201706/are-smartphones-making-us-stupid
Jean Twenge’s “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”
Hannah Natanson’s “Yes, teens are texting and resading social media instead of reading books”
Chrsistopher Ingraham’s “Leisure Reading in the US is at an all-time low”
Constitutional Right to Literacy
Moriah Balingit’s “Do Children Have a Right to Literacy?”
Jacey Fortin’s “‘Access to Literacy is Not a Constitutional Right.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/04/education/detroit-public-schools-education.html
NPR’s “Students Argue Literacy is a Right in Lawsuit”
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/26/632566914/students-argue-literacy-is-a-right-in-lawsuit
Alia Wong’s “Students in Detroit are Suing the State Because They Have Weren’t Taught to Read”
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/07/no-right-become-literate/564545/