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It’s hard enough for fluent English-speaking parents to understand complex test scores and measures used to track students’ progress. But what about parents who don’t speak English well and aren’t ...

Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...