I had exciting news for my students. I had found someone who could teach them to read. This was late in the aughts, when I had just begun working with adults who couldn’t read. I had no materials, no ...

Nearly 43 million American adults have low literacy skills, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. In ...

While navigating everyday life without digital literacy is becoming harder to do, navigating education without it is becoming impossible. The U.S. Department of Labor even defined digital literacy as ...

Despite efforts across various sectors, adults throughout California continue to struggle to access education opportunities that can be critical for their family’s economic mobility. The panel at ...

A Lawrence library official says a new tutoring program designed to help adults improve their literacy and English skills in one-on-one meetings is “ready to go” after an initial launch this year. The ...

Census data shows that 40% of adults in Odessa and Midland have, on average, limited English proficiency. This limits nearly 72,000 of adults’ abilities to read, write, speak, and understand the ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. They never got the help they needed with learning disabilities. Or they came to this country without the ability to read English. Or they graduated from ...

Adult education classes offer a lifeline for Californians who want to get their high school diploma or GED, acquire training for a career, hone their English skills or study for their citizenship test ...