The Voting Rights Act of 1965 got rid of literacy tests given by registrars at voting precincts. The test determined if a person could vote.

Alabama’s literacy tests were not the same for every test-taker. Notoriously, tests given to African-Americans tended to contain harder questions. Workbooks used in Citizenship School, where … ...

The PISA test assessed about 1,500 American students ages 15 and 16 on financial literacy, which was administered through a computer-based test that included multiple-choice questions and ...

Missouri Solicitor General Joshua Divine, whom Trump has nominated to a district court judgeship, wrote a college op-ed in support of requiring prospective voters to pass a literacy test.

Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is sponsoring a constitutional amendment bill to remove the Jim Crow-era literacy test from the state constitution.

A new report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center shows that the average American scored just 48% on a financial literacy test, with groups scoring as low as 37% in certain areas.

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On August 21, 1907, the state of Georgia imposed the “Grandfather Clause.” This legislation added a literacy test as a requirement for voting, which was a major blow to ...

Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Change, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Louis Volante receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities ...

The ICT Literacy Assessment includes 14 four-minute tasks and one 15-minute task and can be administered in about 75 minutes, according to ETS. For example, students may be asked to search ...

For example, rather than simply telling a student they got an answer wrong, I provide them with feedback on why they got it wrong. When it comes to literacy skills, it’s not as simple as saying ...