A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles, shows that children who own personal cellphones scored lower on ...

School cellphone bans might seem like a good way to improve learning for elementary school children, but new research ...

A study found phone ownership, not having phones nearby, was linked with lower reading scores among elementary school ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Psychologists from the University of California, Los Angeles recruited a group of 55 sixth-graders and 51 third-graders, some who ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

It can take years for students to acquire enough academic knowledge to make a difference in reading test scores. A new study suggests that standardized reading tests often fail to reflect what ...

Brain researchers have long studied how students hear and read individual words, but it has proven difficult to parse out what happens when a reader understands a long and difficult passage of text.