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 ...

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 ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

Alabama’s literacy tests were not the same for every test-taker. Notoriously, tests given to African-Americans tended to contain harder questions. Workbooks used in Citizenship School, where blacks ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

If you think you’ve mastered financial basics, you’re either overconfident or in the minority. A new report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center shows that the average American scored ...

It’s true that literacy skills are the building blocks of how we think, communicate, and read. We may not realize it, but they’re linked to everything we do, and they no longer encompass just knowing ...

Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne The Household, Income and Labour ...