The myth of election fraud has fueled a barrage of new voter restrictions in the past two years. States, including several in the South, have made the election process more challenging for voters with ...

Examples from workbooks that the Citizenship School teachers used to teach applicants what to expect with Alabama's literacy test when they went to register to vote. (Courtesy Veterans of Civil Rights ...

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 blacks ...

At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

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 the rights ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue faculty, still not persuaded that civics illiteracy is the problem on campus that President Mitch Daniels believes it might be, on Monday slowed – even more – a plan 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 ...

It’s true that literacy skills are the building blocks of how we think, communicate, and read. We may not realize it, but they’re linked to everything we do, and they no longer encompass just knowing ...