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Helping Students Read Better To help students better understand what they read, researchers should look for ways to improve the ways reading is taught, teachers are trained, and students are assessed, according to a new RAND study. The study was prepared for the U.S. Office of Educational Research and Improvement and was written by a panel of experts. A website was used to collect feedback from ...