Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

The reading-test scores of 4th graders have risen. But, somehow, that improvement has not resulted in higher reading scores for grade 8 and beyond. What’s the explanation? Why don’t later advances in ...

As reading scores remain a top concern for schools nationwide, many districts are experimenting with ability-based grouping ...

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as ...

A new audio documentary makes a good start in explaining why many kids can't understand what they read, but some important information is missing. A new audio documentary asks “why so many kids don’t ...

According to the National Assessment of Education Progress students are continuing to lose ground in reading and math.

Alphabet's AI research company DeepMind has released the next generation of its language model, and it says that it has close to the reading comprehension of a high schooler — a startling claim. It ...

Thirty-six percent of third-graders at Lima schools earned proficient reading scores on their state English language arts ...

When reading a passage, readers may pause at a particular word or return to reread it. Studies using eye-tracking, which ...

It can take years for students to acquire enough academic knowledge to make a difference in reading test scores. A new study suggests that standardized reading tests often fail to reflect what ...

The curriculum for elementary school students contains references to religious texts with a main focus on biblical and ...