Alert reader Bill Marvel spotted this essay in The New Atlantis, which seeks to challenge those who enthuse excessively about the rise of an era of "digital literacy". It notes that "if enthusiasm for the new digital literacy runs high,...
Following on that earlier post, here's a take on those NEA numbers from Hillel Italie of The Associated Press. Others with interesting takes include the Los Angeles Times and Gawker. We have space for your comments as well, should you...
Monday morning is not the usual time slot for good news, but a National Endowment for the Arts study in today's New York Times indicates that for the first time since 1982, the proportion of adults 18 and older who...
According to the America's Most Literate Cities study , not so very -- try "tied for 38th" with Louisville. The study ranks the largest cities on "six key indicators of literacy: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, library resources, periodical publishing...
Preparing to host the National Book Festival in Washington this weekend, Laura Bush says she'll work through the George W. Bush presidential library to promote literacy. She also talks about how she wants the festival to continue -- but who...
Speaking at the annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers in New York, Laura Bush today called books her "greatest love affair" and warned that a "nation that does not read for itself cannot think for itself," The...
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