Once your child reaches elementary school, you’ll notice that your child’s reading level gets periodically tested. Maybe you remember this from when you were a kid, too. The question is: What does ...

A student exits a school bus as they arrive to Creative Arts Secondary School on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, in Saint Paul, Minn. (Ellen Schmidt/Minnesota Reformer) The share of Minnesota eighth graders ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

Jess Hutchison’s daughter Sawyer, 8, is often bored by the books she gets assigned based on her reading level at school. And she’s not the only one. “Many of them are dumb. They’re just nonsensical,” ...

Are you looking for lexile reading levels and wondering how to find them? A few of our library resources show you lexile reading levels of books and articles. The lexile reading score is a metric that ...

The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. Timothy Shanahan, ...