A new book argues for the importance of national assessments in the U.S. but overlooks the negative impact of "reading" tests. Few Americans know much about the standardized tests collectively known ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The $1 billion-a-year Reading First program has had no measurable effect on students’ reading comprehension, on average, although participating schools are spending ...

Test scores show American students have made no progress in reading for two decades, and experts are speculating on the cause of the stagnation. Here’s one reason that few have focused on: the nature ...

It is among the most common of nightmares. You dream of taking a test for which you are completely unprepared — you’ve never studied the material or even attended the course. For millions of American ...

On October 13, 2025 local time, a research paper investigating the impact of social media use on cognitive ability in adolescents was published in JAMA, one of the world's most prestigious medical ...

Students learn in a Palo Alto Unified School District classroom. Embarcadero Media file photo. Palo Alto Unified School District’s early literacy program, the Every Student Reads Initiative (ESRI), is ...

Brain researchers have long studied how students hear and read individual words, but it has proven difficult to parse out what happens when a reader understands a long and difficult passage of text.

When computer models designed by tech giants Alibaba and Microsoft this month surpassed humans for the first time in a reading-comprehension test, both companies celebrated the success as a historic ...

Reading remains one of the most critical foundations of education, shaping how individuals comprehend information, think ...

Discussion around the correct answer to an LSAT reading comprehension question is saying a lot about how discourse goes wrong on X. On Wednesday, one user studying for the Law School Admission Test ...