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 ...

Almost all young people in France take a national reading test around the age of 17 as part of a national event. The test ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Apr 26, 2023, 01:21pm EDT May 01, 2023, 11:21am EDT This article is ...

Elementary school children with personal cell phones score significantly lower on standardized reading comprehension tests than peers without them, according to a July 2026 UCLA study. Parents often ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

During our seminars, one of the most frequent areas in which our students ask for additional help is the reading comprehension portion of the examination. For some of you, reading comprehension is a ...

Reading comprehension among fourth-grade students in the U.S. has flatlined since 2001, allowing education systems in other countries whose students used to perform worse than those in the U.S. to ...