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A new assessment of achievement levels in education, the first of its kind since the pandemic, sets a challenging benchmark at the start of a new school year in the United States. Reading and math skills among high school seniors have fallen to their lowest levels on record, according to a National Assessment of Educational Progress report to be released on Tuesday. Those findings coincide with a broader trend. In the past 20 years, the journal iScience reported last month, the proportion of Americans who read for pleasure has declined by 40%.

In an age of constant digital distraction, explanations are not hard to find. Nor, perhaps, is a solution. As Christine Cunningham, an advocate of science and math learning at the Museum of Science in Boston and a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, tells us, 鈥淚f we are serious about helping kids to learn 鈥� we need to carve out the time for it.鈥�