It's been 57 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed September 8, 1966, as International Literacy Day. The celebration of Literacy Day helps raise awareness around global literacy needs and ...

Education shapes nearly everything else about a country’s future, from life expectancy and wages to political stability and ...

Mr C, a 72-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes, is brought to the emergency department comatose with a blood sugar of 29 mg/dL. When seen in his primary care provider’s office the previous day, his ...

Data from the National Centre for Education Statistics (NCES) indicates that 21 percent of American adults have low literacy levels. Of those with low literacy, 35 percent are White, and 2 percent ...

September is National Literacy Month, and Reading to New Heights is using this month to get the word out about their programming to help adults. “Texas has the fourth-lowest literacy rate in the ...

A poster in a classroom at Cleveland's Seeds of Literacy celebrates recent grads from its program. The organization offers continued education for adults who may have slipped through the cracks of the ...

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, ...

Over 40 New York City Council members are urging the city Department of Youth and Community Development to revise and expand how it plans to allocate funding to nonprofits providing adult literacy ...

Education is one of those things that shapes almost everything else: life expectancy, economic mobility, political stability, ...