The US Education Department highlighted what it called a national literacy crisis, saying national reading scores had fallen to historic lows. It said nearly 70% of fourth- and eighth-grade students could not read proficiently and that twelfth-grade performance was the weakest recorded. The department is promoting evidence-based literacy practices as a way to improve reading outcomes and close learning losses.
Source: https://www.ed.gov/about/news/press-release/building-strong-readers-how-trump-administration-supercharging-evidence-based-literacy-combat-reading-crisis