Consider this a major wonk alert. The headline probably tipped you off. How many people sit around dinner tables talking about text complexity, for crying out loud? Probably only hard-core reading ...

The only correct answer is “d,” since all the others have a “Lexile” score so low that they are deemed most appropriate for fourth, fifth, or sixth graders. This idea might seem ridiculous, but it’s ...

Yet another round of interesting debate has been unfolding in recent weeks about a concept at the heart of the Common Core State Standards: increasing the level of complexity in the texts students ...