South African learners consistently struggle with reading comprehension, performing poorly in both international and local ...

Test a group of eighth graders who speak English at home. Is their Reading Comprehension better than non-English speakers?

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was ...

Improving reading comprehension is critical, and I’ll be watching for new research to help answer these questions for teachers. Shirley Liu contributed reporting. Contact staff writer Jill Barshay at ...

“We’re not rejecting the value of asking low-level questions” focused on factual recall, said Capin. “We’re saying reading comprehension instruction shouldn’t end there.” ...

A 2025 paper shows that hardly any evidence-based practices for teaching reading comprehension have filtered into the classroom.

Alphabet's AI research company DeepMind has released the next generation of its language model that almost has the reading comprehension of a high schooler.

The researchers analyzed the results of studies of more than 1,800 children from birth to age 8, comparing their comprehension and vocabulary learning when reading on paper versus on screens.

In other words, reading comprehension isn’t a skill at all and time spent “practicing” it is counterproductive because of the opportunity cost: it’s time not spent learning history ...

The majority of students spend fewer than 15 minutes per day reading, but increasing their daily reading time to 30 minutes can improve comprehension and boost student achievement.