College students and high-school students preparing to enter college are sorely lacking in the skills needed to retrieve, analyze, and communicate information that is available online, according to ...

Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Change, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Louis Volante receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. When the 2021-2022 session of the North Carolina General Assembly begins work, ...

A major laborers’ union with a large Hispanic immigrant membership is using an English literacy test to disqualify candidates from running for leadership positions in the union. The English competency ...

Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. However, some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests ...

PALMER — Mat-Su students entering middle school next year could have longer class periods and see fewer teachers each day ...