University of Georgia professor Peter Smagorinsky always gives us something to think about it in his guest columns for AJC Get Schooled. No exception today with this fascinating discussion of how we ...

The United States has witnessed a disturbing trend in recent years: a decline in literacy rates. According to the National Literacy Institute, 54% of American adults read at or below a fifth-grade ...

Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...

Ray Perryman is the head of The Perryman Group and serves as a distinguished professor at the International Institute for Advanced Studies. It is impossible to overstate the importance of literacy ...

A new generation of activists is calling for bold responses to the climate crisis. Although young people are motivated to act on climate issues, existing educational frameworks do not adequately ...

The need for a literate world is more important than ever. In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, the meaning of literacy has evolved beyond reading and writing. Literacy now affects all forms of ...

Health literacy is a concept that addresses an individual’s ability to “find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others.” ...