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Well, it’s official: the 1.65 million students of the high-school class of ’11 have set a new record. They collectively racked up the lowest SAT reading scores ever. Moreover, their score compared to the ’10 score represented one of the biggest declines in 20 years. So not only are today’s kids terrible readers, they are rapidly getting more terrible.