Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Imagine you have a test coming up. Wouldn’t you like to know what might be on it? That may seem like a fair question, but millions ...

The overseers of the nation's preeminent reading test are squabbling, but neither side sees that the test itself is a key part of a system that fails millions of children. An effort to revise the ...

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 ...

“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 ...

At this point, is there anything humans can do better than robots? The latest example of our inferiority: Artificial intelligence systems from Alibaba and Microsoft performed better than humans in a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- James L. Collins, Ed.D., professor of learning and instruction in the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education, has, over the course of his 35-year career, developed many ...

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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 Mississippi reformed its reading curriculum in 2013, scores for the state’s elementary school students soared. Inspired ...