About 16,238 third graders failed South Carolina reading tests last year. That number has been nearly cut in half.

Earlier studies with wealthier students showed improvements on the standardized reading comprehension test. It’s hard to make sense of why this study showed giant benefits using one measure, but none ...

Reading comprehension tests measure a person’s ability to take only the information given in a passage and pick a conclusion most supported by the text, ...

Recent STAAR test results show that while Texas students increased literacy rates slightly, nearly half of students in third ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below ...

Why is a student not able to figure out the correct answer to these test questions on this reading comprehension test? This is humiliating. We are especially concerned about the thousands of ...