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 ...

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 ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 21, 1907, the state of Georgia imposed the “Grandfather Clause.” This legislation added a literacy test as a requirement for voting, which was a major blow to the rights ...

Students at more than 25 community colleges, four-year institutions and high schools across the U.S. are testing a new version of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy Assessment ...

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 ...

Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Change, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Louis Volante receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities ...

The latest numbers on financial literacy are out, and they aren't pretty. U.S. adults got just 49% of the questions right on this year's personal finance index test, according to the 2025 Personal ...