Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A tutor works with a man arranging letters to form words during an adult literacy class. In a world where reading is often taken ...

WILLS POINT, TX — A shocking number of adults around the world can’t read or write even a simple sentence, says mission agency GFA World (www.gfa.org) as it marks International Literacy Day, Sept. 8.

My experience as a tutor leads me to believe that the country needs to invest in the education of students’ parents. Eugene Scott is a journalist based in Washington, D.C., and a visiting fellow at ...

Imagine being a manufacturer of a product that nearly three members out of 10 in the target audience are unable to do much of anything with. Printers inadvertently fit that description because of a ...

This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Susan Bowman, vice-president of a nonprofit ...

Millions of adults struggle every day with basic tasks, like reading a bill or a bus schedule. Those with limited literacy find all kinds of ways... Turning The Page On Illiteracy, Adults Go Back To ...