Michael Jones, 46, spent more years of his life in an 80-square-foot cell than he did with his mother. When he was released from Smith State Prison in Glennville, Georgia, at 40, after serving 23 ...

Adult literacy challenges deepen health inequities, limit opportunity and are linked to incarceration. Even so, efforts to ...

The Adult Learning Center in Milwaukee was forced to close its doors last month after serving thousands of people looking to improve their reading and math skills. This comes as 1.5 million people in ...

While it was gratifying to see that The Chronicle deems the issue of adult literacy worthy of a cover story, we were disappointed with the article (“Building a Nation of Readers”) that ran in your ...

For a bit of good news about education, check out today's story about adult literacy rates. Yesterday, the National Center for Education Statistics released a study that showed that while literacy ...

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, more commonly known as North Korea, has an adult male, adult female, and youth literacy rate of 100%. The latest statistics for the country are available ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — It may be hard to believe, but according to the Nashville Adult Literacy Council, one in five Nashville adults is at the lowest level of literacy. Since 1982, NALC, has been ...

This is from the online archives of The Star of North Augusta, a collection of more than 25,000 articles published from October 2007 to February 2022. Susan Bowman, vice-president of a nonprofit ...