Can you explain what risk diversification is? Identify the effects of inflation? Know how to calculate interest? If you answered yes to these three questions, you are better off than 43% of Americans ...

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 ...

Turning back the clock, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Shelby County v. Holder, struck down the key Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which originally required nine states (Texas ...

University of Canberra provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. New South Wales Education Minister Adrian Piccoli has announced no teacher will graduate in his state without having ...

Earlier this week we posted a video of a group of Harvard students taking — and failing — a 50-year-old literacy test. The 1964 Louisiana Voter Literacy Test was originally distributed to ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — In 2001, flush with money from Initiative 728 that earmarked a portion of state property taxes to reduce class sizes, Lake Stevens High School hired a literacy coach to help struggling ...

The 2017 results of the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies finds that America’s adult workforce is no more skillful in reading, math, or digital problem-solving than it was ...

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