“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 ...

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 ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. The $1 billion-a-year Reading First program has had no measurable effect on students’ reading comprehension, on average, although participating schools are spending ...

More school districts are interested in using reading programs designed to build students’ broad knowledge about the world by focusing their reading and writing on specific topics in social studies, ...