There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

After overhauling literacy policy in 2013, Mississippi went from 49th to a top 10 state in fourth-grade reading. It’s been dubbed the “Mississippi Miracle,” but those involved say it was more of a ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The time has long since come to eliminate the literacy test for voter registration from ...

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 — ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The push to remove an illegal voting literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution is once again up for debate in the General Assembly. Some lawmakers have been trying for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A House committee ...

This article was originally published in EdSource. Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired and replaced with a ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...