TO UNSEAT STATE SENATOR PHIL BURGER, A NONPROFIT IN THE TRIAD IS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO HELP ADULTS IMPROVE THEIR LITERACY SKILLS. WILKES 12 NEWS STAR CONNOR IS LIVE FOR US. THIS MORNING STAR. TELL ...

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 ...

Many adults join the Adult Literacy Program to improve their reading and writing skills, working one on one with a volunteer tutor. Improved literacy helps these adults obtain jobs, further their own ...

"If kids are coming or graduating from high school with low reading skills and they don't have access to educational ...

DAVIS - An adult reading program in Davis is making a huge difference, especially for one man who could not speak English when he moved to Davis. A few years ago, this would've seemed impossible but ...

Are you smarter than a ten-year-old? New data suggest that a shockingly large portion of adults in the rich world might not be. Roughly one-fifth of people aged 16 to 65 perform no better in tests of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A local nonprofit is making adult education more accessible for people seeking help with their reading skills. “What can we do to raise our impact on literacy around the Midlands,” ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. Nine years ago, Analilia Gutierrez gave birth to her son, a micro preemie who needed intensive care. At the time, Gutierrez, an immigrant ...

Let’s cut to the chase — younger generations are struggling with literacy. And it’s not just young kids learning to read for the first time. With the changing landscape of educational systems, both ...

Mr C, a 72-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes, is brought to the emergency department comatose with a blood sugar of 29 mg/dL. When seen in his primary care provider’s office the previous day, his ...