DURHAM, NC--(Marketwire - Sep 17, 2012) - MetaMetrics®, developer of The Lexile® Framework for Reading, announced that two new mobile apps now utilize Lexile measures to connect readers with texts.

In journalism, a general rule of thumb is to write articles at an eighth grade reading level. That translates to a score between 985L and 1295L on MetaMetrics’ Lexile scale, which attempts to measure ...

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 ...