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.

Since 1986, Literacy Outreach has worked on helping adults in need of basic English literacy instruction and other skills. “We train volunteers to help those in need,” said Martha Fredenall, the ...

A recent report highlighted the poor levels of financial literacy among American teens, but are states doing enough to ensure that the next generation have the money skills they are going to need? Not ...

Caitlin Baron is the CEO of the Luminos Fund. Photo credit in this piece goes to Mekbib Tadesse for the Luminos Fund. Like many children in Ethiopia, Esayas hardly set foot in a classroom during the ...

Dear reader, today is World Literacy Day. You know what that means don’t you? It is the day people examine themselves and seek a genuine answer to the question: how would I like to be that man or ...

An Oct. 20 event celebrated the 15th anniversary of the New Jersey Workplace Literacy and Basic Skills Training Program. The initiative – a partnership of the New Jersey Business & Industry ...

A friend of mine, a young mother, vented her frustration on Facebook. “In today’s day and age it’s not hard to spend a bit of time looking at the sources,” she wrote. That sounds plausible — until you ...