{
  "id": 13342,
  "url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/my-fourth-grader-is-behind-in-reading-hes-not-alone-and-congress-can-help",
  "title": "Opinion: My Fourth Grader Is Behind in Reading. He’s Not Alone — and Congress Can Help",
  "summary": "This year, my son’s school sent out a book for the entire district to read, “The One and Only Ivan,” about a gorilla who lives in a cage in a mall on the side of a highway. While the book was deeply depressing, what was even more heartbreaking was the fact that my fourth grader, […]",
  "authors": "Ariel Smith",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "children-education",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-07-24T12:30:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-74-education-ai",
  "source_name": "The 74 (education AI)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.the74million.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13342",
  "original_url": "https://www.the74million.org/article/my-fourth-grader-is-behind-in-reading-hes-not-alone-and-congress-can-help",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}