There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

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 ...

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 friend of mine, a young mother, vented her frustration on Facebook. “In today’s day and age it’s not hard to spend a bit of time looking at the sources,” she wrote. That sounds plausible — until you ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Around 22% of residents in Palm Beach County aged 16 and older lack basic literacy skills, according to the National Center for Education Statistics 2023 estimate. The ...

In his State of the Nation address earlier this month, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that this year South Africa will be introducing coding and robotics in grades R to three in 200 schools. This ...

Eight years ago, a national survey on adult literacy offered data on the extent to which Americans -- even those with college credentials -- were declining in their proficiency to do the basic kinds ...

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THE basic literacy rate in Metro Manila, while being the highest, has declined, according to the latest Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey (FLEMMS) released by the Philippine ...