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SO, I am suggesting, the school “reforms” beginning in the 2010s sucked the fun out of reading, making it a chore rather than a pleasure. From this perspective, it is not surprising that the biggest decline in joy of reading, found in the Scholastic survey, occurs between the end of second grade and the end of third grade. At most U.S. schools, third grade is the first year of high-stakes testing in reading, so that’s when the skill-and-drill mode of teaching begins to hit hard. CLICK HERE: petergray.substack.com/…