At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. New South Wales Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has announced no teacher will graduate in his state without having ...

Examples from workbooks that the Citizenship School teachers used to teach applicants what to expect with Alabama's literacy test when they went to register to vote. (Courtesy Veterans of Civil Rights ...

American teens fall below half of their peers in a handful of other developed economies when it comes to financial literacy. Shanghai’s 15-year-olds perform the best, according to results of an ...

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Earlier this week we posted a video of a group of Harvard students taking — and failing — a 50-year-old literacy test. The 1964 Louisiana Voter Literacy Test was originally distributed to ...

In the 21st century, students must develop digital literacy skills to thrive in a technology-dominated landscape. Digital literacy encompasses a range of competencies, including information navigation ...