A recent survey has shown that children choosing their own books to read are choosing ones that are way below their grade level. Reading has been pushed in schools for years, but it looks like it is falling by the wayside as computers take its place. For more on the study and the growing alarm read Alison Flood’s articles for The Guardian.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/07/alarm-secondary-school-reading-habits