A troubling literacy report finds that a shocking two-thirds of students in fourth and eighth grade

failed to read at a proficient level, and average reading test scores are the lowest they've been in decades.

The assessment comes four years after schools shuttered their doors in response to the

coronavirus pandemic and students and states across the country fell behind.

In this episode, we speak to Daily Wire Investigations editor Brent Schur about just how bad the state

of education has gotten, and whether there's anything that can be done to reverse course.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley.

It's April 7th, and this is a Sunday edition of Morning Wire.

If you don't employ this means of how to teach the child,

that child might never learn to read.

Literally, not be a poor reader, I mean like not learn to read.

And if that's the case, their fate, their future

is quite possibly dramatically diminished.

That was Senator Bill Cassidy sounding the alarm about a lack of reading proficiency in American

children.

Daily Wire Investigations editor Brent

Shur spoke to him and other education experts about the troubling

trend. So Brent, what did Senator Cassidy have to say?

Right, yeah, so he's a Louisiana Republican and he put out a report based on the National

Assessment of Educational Progress or Nate, which is conducted by the country every two years.

The findings were as bad as they've been in decades. every two-year

third things were as bad as they've been in decades.

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