Mark Doyle is one of the tutors who helps learners at Seeds of Literacy. The organization offers continued education for adults who may have slipped through the cracks of the education system as ...

Numeracy in adult education encompasses the skills, dispositions and social practices that enable adults to engage effectively with quantitative information across everyday contexts. It extends beyond ...

CLEVELAND -- Recently, the Fund for Our Economic Future presented survey data detailing how employers are attracting new employees or keeping current ones. The data revealed that talent shortages are ...

Garrett Ferby was the only member of his family who hadn’t graduated from high school and attended college. The 22-year-old had been, as he put it, “a bit of a knucklehead” as a teenager, which had ...

The share of adults with literacy skills at the lowest measured levels increased substantially as the gap between the high-skilled and low-skilled in the U.S. expands, according to new data from the ...

In the past decade, most countries have seen either stagnant or declining rates of literacy, according to the international nonprofit Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s 20203 ...

International Literacy Day 2023 will be celebrated on 8 September under the theme “Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies”. The ...

Test after test of U.S. students’ reading and math abilities have shown scores declining since the pandemic. Now, new results show that it’s not just children whose skills have fallen over the past ...

Are you smarter than a ten-year-old? New data suggest that a shockingly large portion of adults in the rich world might not be. Roughly one-fifth of people aged 16 to 65 perform no better in tests of ...