The Voting Rights Act of 1965 got rid of literacy tests given by registrars at voting precincts. The test determined if a person could vote.

Are current forms of standardized literacy tests really measuring children’s capacity to read and interact with our rapidly-changing world?

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 … ...

Missouri Solicitor General Joshua Divine, whom Trump has nominated to a district court judgeship, wrote a college op-ed in support of requiring prospective voters to pass a literacy test.

Early childhood, middle childhood, and early adolescence determinants of functional literacy in adulthood are investigated, using 20-year longitudinal data from a sample of black children of teenaged ...

North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

The PISA test assessed about 1,500 American students ages 15 and 16 on financial literacy, which was administered through a computer-based test that included multiple-choice questions and ...

A new report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center shows that the average American scored just 48% on a financial literacy test, with groups scoring as low as 37% in certain areas.