Nearly one in five Fort Bend County adults struggle with basic reading proficiency, according to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics. It’s also estimated that about 13% of the ...

In a decrepit classroom in the northern Iraqi city of Hawija, men in their 20s and 30s sit chanting the Arabic alphabet. Dressed in green military camouflage uniforms, they are part of the Awakening ...

Hawaii’s history as one of the world’s most literate societies in the 19th century now sits in uneasy contrast with a modern reality: tens of thousands of adults across the state still struggle with ...

School-leavers might be tech-savvy but they are increasingly entering the workplace without basic numerical and literacy skills, employers have warned. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and ...

South Africa, like many of its peers in the Global South, is awash in digital optimism. Coding bootcamps for youth, broadband projects spanning provinces, and classrooms equipped with sleek tablets.

Literacy is a basic human right, it is something that empowers a person and it liberates a person. That power, of being able to learn and grow and connect, I just don't think there's anything like it.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the U.S. Constitution includes a right to "a basic minimum education," which lawyers claim the state of Michigan denied to a group of Detroit Public School ...

An Oct. 20 event celebrated the 15th anniversary of the New Jersey Workplace Literacy and Basic Skills Training Program. The initiative – a partnership of the New Jersey Business & Industry ...

A recent report highlighted the poor levels of financial literacy among American teens, but are states doing enough to ensure that the next generation have the money skills they are going to need? Not ...

LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte (PIA) — The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has reported that Ilocos Norte recorded the highest basic literacy rate in Region 1 at 93.4%, based on the 2024 Functional ...

A major laborers’ union with a large Hispanic immigrant membership is using an English literacy test to disqualify candidates from running for leadership positions in the union. The English competency ...