Kids have stopped reading / Dads are finally showing up at home / 11 million kids with a parent in the system

Harvard, Stanford, and Dartmouth researchers just published a national education scorecard and the reading results are sobering — scores have been declining since 2013, well before COVID, and the states making gains all have one thing in common. Also: new data shows college-educated dads cut their paid work by six hours a week and added four hours of childcare between 2019 and 2024 — the biggest shift in household labor in decades. And a new JAMA study of 76 million children finds that 15% — 11 million kids — had a family member criminally charged in the past five years, triple the rate from 2000. Plus the Knight Rider car's speeding ticket, a Zoltar machine with a winning lottery number, the vomit fee restaurant, and a fertilizer spill on a Pennsylvania highway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.