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"That particular test was not typical of the literacy tests used in the Deep South to deny voting rights to African-Americans. It's an extreme and unusual example, and we don't believe it was ...
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 … ...
The first ever Global FinLit Survey finds that just 57% of adults in the U.S. are financially literate -- a figure that's good enough to rank America 14th in the world.
North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters.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 Missouri solicitor general, who Trump has tapped for a district court seat, wrote a 2010 op-ed in support of literacy tests as a requirement to vote.
While the test is geared towards the personal and professional literacy and numeracy skills of teachers, they are approximately the equivalent of a year 10 English standard.
PIRLS stands for the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, an assessment given to fourth-graders in schools around the world every five years, and the latest scores, from 2016, were ...
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 ...