College students skirting around doing assigned readings is not necessarily a new phenomenon, but lately, that problem has ...

That’s when the best short stories swoop in to satisfy my love for reading. While short books are also great for quick reads, short stories are an even more bite-sized literary treat.

The Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC) section is often considered the “make-it-or-break-it” section of the ...

Reading Comprehension (RC) is a crucial part of the Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (VARC) section in the CAT exam.

Earlier this month, seemingly everyone was talking about Rose Horowitch’s October Atlantic article, The Elite College ...

As The Washington Post recently reported, most teachers in secondary education have shifted to assigning short reading passages ... students’ grades and test scores across primary and secondary ...

Short-form data and analysis from Pew Research Center writers and social scientists. To view all our reports and publications, visit our main Publications page. Just 13 UN member countries are ...

“For more than two decades, new educational initiatives such as No Child Left Behind and Common Core emphasized informational texts and standardized tests,” writes Rose Horowitch for the Atlantic.

Teachers at many schools shifted from books to short informational passages, followed by ... mimicking the format of standardized reading-comprehension tests. Antero Garcia, a Stanford education ...

Cats use a mix of strategies when deciding whether to pass through a space and it suggests some self-awareness.

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