As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

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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 ...

LSAT test-takers need little convincing to prepare carefully for logical reasoning questions, which make up two of the three scored sections of the test. After all, untangling conditional or causal ...

While this problem has received considerable attention, no clear explanation has emerged. In my recent PhD thesis, I considered a crucial, but often overlooked, piece of the puzzle – the curriculum ...