College students and high-school students preparing to enter college are sorely lacking in the skills needed to retrieve, analyze, and communicate information that is available online, according to ...

Associate Professor of Leadership and Educational Change, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Louis Volante receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities ...

The Educational Testing Service is expanding its efforts to measure how savvy students are about technology and about the information that they get online. After unveiling an information-literacy test ...

Changes to the state literacy standards this year has been causing some anxiety among teachers and administrators, especially now that annual testing season is upon them. Gwen Walz, assessment ...

There’s a lot of debate these days about how to define “technology literacy,” but in a couple years, the National Assessment of Educational Progress will take the unusual step of testing students in ...

The recent White House Conference on Global Literacy hosted here by first lady Laura Bush coincided with the rollout of a new international assessment that holds the promise of providing a much more ...

Every time an election looms, Baton Rouge resident Ashley Shelton notices the red flags — the signs sprinkled around the city and other parts of Louisiana that give the wrong information about when ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. When the 2021-2022 session of the North Carolina General Assembly begins work, ...