The southern region of the U.S. has a lower literacy rate than states further north, data from the National Center of Education Statistics shows. In 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were ...

Fourth and eighth graders also performed worse on the math portion of the 2024 test than they did before the pandemic. Fourth ...

The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the ...

Florida’s literacy rates are declining. FSU experts stress the need to revive reading for critical thinking and democracy.

But weeks before the data was revealed, different claims about literacy statistics went viral online. A post in early November with nearly four million views said, “The latest US literacy stats ...

Advocates argue for decentralization to boost literacy rates, while critics fear the ... the delivery and oversight of education in the United States. The debate underscores the need for a nuanced ...

“We are really taking a family literacy approach to understand this ... So, what that tells us is it’s less about time and more about awareness. We really think that lack of awareness about ...

The Caitlin Clark Foundation and Scholastic are teaming up together to help promote children's literacy and have pledged to ...

There’s a looming crisis threatening our future workforce and economic stability: Pennsylvania’s literacy crisis. Today, only 1 in 3 of Pennsylvania’s fourth-graders are reading proficiently. It is a ...

Also explore the classroom resources produced by the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign charity. In what ways might high inflation make it difficult for people to manage their credit card ...