Hello everyone, I've ended up in an awkward situation: I'm a formerly top of my class philosophy/history student who took a wrong turn and fell off a cliff into a teacher's education graduate program. Basically, the kind of work/articles that I'm reading are much more inline with psychology/stats/sociological work than anything that I got used to during my undergrad. I'd like to do a project on how to improve reading among young people. This means that I need information on: 1: What is the reading level/comprehension like for young people compared to the past? Basically every person I speak to tells me that kid's reading abilities are in the toilet, but I want something more than 'vibes' to go off of. 2: What are practices that have seen success increasing student reading abilities, and maybe even the desire to read? I go to UofT, so I have access to their phenomenal library. And I've already been reading a few articles were researchers do studies on the rugrats.…