An elementary school teacher has confirmed schools are teaching a different version of the "Alphabet Song" and why they are doing it. Alphabet knowledge and the understanding of letter forms, names ...

One in four young adults across the U.S. is functionally illiterate – yet more than half earned high school diplomas, ...

Teaching English by pure “look-say” —the theory that children need only recognize shapes of whole words rather than individual letters or syllables—is discredited in the U.S.; 30 years of trying it ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Indy Reads is helping illiterate adults in Marion County. The non-profit organization’s CEO, Ryan King, told News 8 that one in every six Hoosiers read below a 5th grade level.

This first appeared in James Farrell's weekly education newsletter. Sign up here to get it to your inbox first. I’ve spent the last several weeks diving deeply into the complicated world of literacy — ...

The Army had more than 300,000 illiterates: in G.I. slang, they were called “jugheads.” But they did not stay jug-heads long. The Army boasted that it could teach illiterate draftees to read and write ...

Children and adults alike get bombarded with questionable information every day, whether it’s fake TikTok videos on the war in Ukraine, targeted ads on Facebook, or disinformation on climate change on ...