A text message from a friend. A product label at the grocery store. A street sign. Even in the most basic elements of day-to-day life, reading is everywhere. “Children need to learn to read and write ...

The United States has witnessed a disturbing trend in recent years: a decline in literacy rates. According to the National Literacy Institute, 54% of American adults read at or below a fifth-grade ...

WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump’s nominees to a federal judgeship, Josh Divine, argued in a college opinion piece that people should be required to take literacy tests in order to vote — ...

In a major education announcement Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom revealed that California’s K-12 students achieved significant gains in statewide test scores and signed a new literacy bill aimed to ...