Large-scale testing, or what many know as standardized testing, often carries important consequences for students. The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make ...

Why aren’t liberals more outraged by the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency? After all, the administration’s white paper outlining what the agency should do contains some eyebrow-raising ...

The Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965, is one of the most venerated statutes in American law. Its provisions guaranteed the right to vote and ended the subterfuges used by Jim Crow-era politicians to ...

A recent media report noted student teachers are facing delays in sitting a literacy and numeracy test they need to pass to graduate, due to the pandemic. The report noted a group of student teachers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. However, some states enacted a ...

“Write every other word in this first line and print every third word in the same line … but capitalize the fifth word that you write.” “Print the word vote upside down, but in the correct order.” ...

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 ...