The ability to read and write should be a baseline expectation for all. In the modern world, competent reading and writing is only the beginning of true literacy. Our students must now be competent in multiple “literacies”: technological, media, scientific, quantitative, and so on. True literacy involves the ability to think critically about “text”—whatever its form. With information available as never before, deciding what to do with that information—how we choose, process, and think critically about it—is an important skill that our students need.