How To Get Teens To Read (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

In the age when everything is digital, quick and dazzling, what’s to engage an American teen in the world of a great book? Of deep reading? New Yorker writer David Denby set out to find out. It’s a real challenge. He worries that without meeting it we face a profound cultural loss. But he also found a way. In classrooms where passionate teachers open great books and young minds. This hour On Point, David Denby, and what it takes to make readers of the hyper-digital young. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:
http://onpoint.wbur.org/2016/02/11/how-to-get-teens-to-read