If background knowledge is linked to reading ability, does teaching knowledge help kids become better readers? It can. But there are some caveats.

In classrooms across the country, teachers are rethinking how students build reading comprehension — not just how they decode words, but how they make ...

The Google Common Knowledge Project lets anyone quickly access reliable civic data from their local community, such as the average household income or educational background of others in an area.

The flexibility offered by a knowledge-graph-powered data catalog enables near-immediate support for new types of data sources; a knowledge graph makes it easy to extend the model to represent ...

The future belongs to those who can tell a machine exactly what they want—and who know exactly why they want it.

A second aspect of what’s important is knowledge. Reading comprehension is at least partially using what you know to make sense of the information. And it’s really never too early.

KNOWING WHAT WE KNOW: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic, by Simon Winchester Simon Winchester has made an illustrious career of raising anecdote to art.