The Complete Guide to the TOEFL

Costs vary per country. In the U.S., taking the TOEFL costs $270, with additional fees for express registration and scoring, ...
Quanta Magazine

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 ...
CNN

Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...
Los Angeles Times

How Mississippi gamed its national reading test scores to produce ‘miracle’ gains

The term has been shooting around the education field and news reports lately with increasing frequency: “the Mississippi miracle.” The reference is to that benighted state’s surprising success in ...
The New York Times

N.Y.C. Schools Change How Reading Is Taught, and Test Scores Rise

Mayor Adams cast the upswing as evidence of efforts to improve instruction, while rivals in the mayoral race argued that teachers need better training. By Troy Closson Reading test scores climbed ...
The Hechinger Report

Kids are in a ‘reading recession,’ as test scores continue to decline

This story was produced by the Associated Press, in partnership with Chalkbeat and AL.com, and reprinted with permission. MODESTO, Calif. – Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the ...