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 ...

News spread Monday of a remarkable breakthrough in artificial intelligence. Microsoft and Chinese retailer Alibaba independently announced that they had made software that matched or outperformed ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

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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 ...

The results of the test, which assesses a sample of fourth- and eighth-grade students, will inevitably prompt demands for policy change. By Erica L. Green and Dana Goldstein WASHINGTON — America’s ...

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 ...

Classroom collaboration software exists, but Disrupt New York Hackathon participant Epigrammar thinks its approach better tackles the issue of student grammar, test creation and comprehension.