Nearly one in five Fort Bend County adults struggle with basic reading proficiency, according to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics. It’s also estimated that about 13% of the ...

Literacy is a basic human right, it is something that empowers a person and it liberates a person. That power, of being able to learn and grow and connect, I just don't think there's anything like it.

XPRIZE, a nonprofit that runs competitions to stimulate technologists toward building products that improve humankind, is dipping its toes into basic education. They’re launching a $15 million ...

Everywhere in our economy, there are shortages – in skills, workers and opportunities. Employers say they can’t find the workers they need. And yet, tens of millions of workers are stuck in low-wage, ...

Results from the trial literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education students are in. The tests were sat by 5,000 volunteers across the country, with 92% passing in literacy and 90% in the ...

The United States ranks low in basic proficiency language and numeracy skills in a survey of 24 countries, even though its citizens are comparatively highly educated. Eight years ago, a national ...

In his State of the Nation address earlier this month, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that this year South Africa will be introducing coding and robotics in grades R to three in 200 schools. This ...

THE literacy rate was estimated at 93.8% among those five years old or older, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said, citing survey results. The PSA’s 2019 Functional Literacy, Education and ...