Elementary school children with personal cell phones score significantly lower on standardized reading comprehension tests ...

Teaching "reading comprehension" is pointless if kids don't have the education they need to comprehend what they're reading. Teaching “reading comprehension” is pointless if kids don’t have the ...

Building knowledge beginning in kindergarten can eliminate test-score gaps between lower- and higher-income students, according to a new study. Building students’ general knowledge can lead to ...

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 ...

Help students strengthen and assess their reading comprehension skills with these engaging Zoo-themed reading tests for Grade 3 students. This resource includes 10 short reading comprehension ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

A tool known as BERT can now beat humans on advanced reading-comprehension tests. But it's also revealed how far AI has to go. In the fall of 2017, Sam Bowman, a computational linguist at New York ...

There's been sharp improvement in primary school children's maths and vocabulary skills but their understanding of what they read is in a serious dip.