Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when ...

The need to improve youth literacy rates is proving a rare area of bipartisan agreement in the Pennsylvania capitol. But it’s unclear whether lawmakers will put up the money to fund a new literacy ...

Parents and teachers at Los Angeles Unified School District will soon have a new tool to help identify students who may be struggling to read—before they fall too far behind. The school board on ...

White supremacist Democrats in the late 1800s created literacy tests for Black voters, but exempted illiterate white voters. Into the 1950s, the tests were used to stop educated Black voters from ...

There were two huge developments in the literacy world early this year. First, the emergence of a phonics program that could impact outcomes “dramatically.” Gains for 1 st graders from the ...

WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that people should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — ...

Donald Trump’s administration isn’t being subtle in the steps it’s taking to recreate the conditions of the segregated Jim Crow era. And one of his judicial nominees for a lifetime appointment once ...

WASHINGTON – JoAnne Bland was 11 when she crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 − known as Bloody Sunday − with hundreds of others to protest Black Americans being denied voting rights.

California is moving closer to eliminating the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment for teachers and replacing it with a performance assessment based on a new set of literacy standards ...

Many San Diego Unified kindergartners are already arriving at school behind grade level in reading, and reading scores take a hit when students reach middle school, district testing data show. This ...