At universities across the country, many college students are opening their dense textbooks or skimming academic articles and finding that the vocabulary is unfamiliar and the structure hard to follow. National college-readiness data suggest that many incoming students are not fully prepared for college-level reading. According to ACT’s 2025 national report, only 39 percent of ACT-tested graduates met the reading college-readiness benchmark for …
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