Forbes

Yes, National Tests Are Useful—But Not In ‘Reading’

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 ...
quantamagazine.org

Machines Beat Humans on a Reading Test. But Do They Understand?

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 ...
Education Week

Reading Comprehension Teaching Has Improved—But Not Nearly Enough

There are a lot of things that have improved over the past 50 years, but are still far from perfect: Car safety. Solar power uptake. Scores of medical procedures. Add reading comprehension instruction ...
Forbes

Yes, There Is Evidence That Building Knowledge Boosts Reading Comprehension

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Apr 01, 2021, 05:47pm EDT Apr 03, 2021, 11:45am EDT This article is ...