Literacy

Literacy initiative has new home downtown

8 Feb 2012

GLOVERSVILLE - The adult students who come to the Gloversville Literacy Zone have very different stories to tell, but a renewed sense of hope for the future is the common thread running through all of them.

Low Literacy Hurts Women's Wages More Than Men's

8 Feb 2012

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Analysis of National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) data by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) reveals that men with low literacy levels earn more than women with low literacy levels. Women at all levels of literacy tend to have lower wages than comparable men, but the gender wage gap is most noticeable between men and women ...

Literacy test scores inaccurate

7 Feb 2012

Thousands of Charleston County first-graders received inaccurate literacy test results in the fall after a not-for-profit group botched the exams' scoring.