Teachers, parents and textbook companies use technical "readability" formulas to determine how difficult reading materials are and to set reading levels by age group. But new research shows that the ...

A side-by-side comparison was floating around Facebook recently. It showed the same woman taking a selfie. On the left she looked thin but flabby. On the right she was built and beautiful. The caption ...

My print column this week discusses readability formulas, which attempt to measure the minimum grade level needed to understand a given text. Microsoft Word includes a readability formula in its ...

Everybody wants their kids to read—but choosing the right book, at the right level, that somehow still appeals to a kid, can be tricky. Parents want something that their children can get through, but ...

Creating high-quality content is more important than it's ever been, thanks in part to the recent infamous algorithm updates by Google. Now, when creating a blog post, article, or any other written ...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...