The United States has witnessed a disturbing trend in recent years: a decline in literacy rates. According to the National Literacy Institute, 54% of American adults read at or below a fifth-grade ...

University of Georgia professor Peter Smagorinsky always gives us something to think about it in his guest columns for AJC Get Schooled. No exception today with this fascinating discussion of how we ...

Bill Bass is the innovation coordinator for the Parkway School District in St. Louis. He is also an award-winning educator, speaker and author. As a former high school English teacher, I constantly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walk into an early elementary classroom these days and you’ll likely see strong phonics instruction in action: students tapping ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The goal of news literacy is, broadly put, to teach people how to consume news critically so they know when information is ...

The need for a literate world is more important than ever. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the meaning of literacy has evolved beyond reading and writing. Literacy now affects all forms of ...

When Himachal Pradesh recently declared itself India's first fully literate state, the headlines sounded almost utopian. But what does "100% literacy" really mean in India, and how is such an ...