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 ...

A new literacy screening test has made its way into classrooms across elementary schools in the Santa Barbara Unified School ...

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 ...

California State Superintendent Tony Thurmond visits Burbank Elementary to highlight how Spanish-speaking students are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue faculty, still not persuaded that civics illiteracy is the problem on campus that President Mitch Daniels believes it might be, on Monday slowed – even more – a plan to ...