Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their ...

Some New York fourth-graders tackling state language-arts tests examined passages that were taken from books deemed to be at a fifth- or sixth-grade reading level, according to a person who saw ...

Read a passage from the third-grade reading test called “Secrets Are Hard to Keep” and answer the six questions that students were tested on. NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 ...

Aug. 12, 2011 -- A parent's complaint that a Sherlock Holmes novel is anti-Mormon has led to its removal from the sixth-grade reading list in a Virginia county school system. In a unanimous vote ...