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 ...

Ever since that morning I spent in a basement in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood a few weeks ago, I can’t get text complexity off my mind. Nor can I shake the image of the opening slide in a ...

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 ...