Financial illiteracy costs the average American $1,015 a year. This isn’t just some abstract statistic — it’s real money lost to bad budgeting, high-interest debt, and missed chances to grow wealth.

Buffeted by disinformation and cynical about the media, most teens (94%) wish their schools taught media literacy, but only 39% got such instruction during the 2023-24 school year, according to a ...

Across the country, too many students are not reading at grade level, and too many school systems are advancing them anyway.