The Chronicle of Higher Education

Students Lack ‘Information Literacy,’ Testing Service’s Study Finds

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 ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

Educational Testing Service Expands Efforts to Measure Computer Literacy

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 ...
Education Week

Testing Tech Literacy

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 ...
The State Journal

Thorn Hill Education Center named Family Literacy Champion

First Lady Britainy Beshear recognized recent enrollment gains in Kentucky adult education programs and celebrated ...
Yahoo

‘New Literacy Test’: The Black Organizers Waging War on Disinformation

Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when ...
WTVD

Lawmakers again try to remove illegal Jim Crow-era literacy tests from North Carolina Constitution

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The push to remove an illegal voting literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution is once again up for debate in the General Assembly. Some lawmakers have been trying for ...

Operation Education: M-STEP data at local schools show concern for 3rd grade literacy

Newly released M-STEP data shows a mixed picture for literacy amongst Michigan students.The M-STEP measures whether students ...
Charlotte Observer

Eliminate the literacy test from the NC Constitution

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, ...
Education Week

Adult-Literacy Test Introduced to Developing Nations

The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more ...
WGHP

Bipartisan measure aims to remove literacy test from North Carolina Constitution

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A House committee ...
Washington Monthly

North Carolina Still Has a Literacy Test On the Books

The Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965, is one of the most venerated statutes in American law. Its provisions guaranteed the right to vote and ended the subterfuges used by Jim Crow-era politicians to ...