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.

The literacy test was among four assessments introduced in the 2013-2014 school year as part of an effort to raise the level of elementary and secondary school teaching in the state.

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 ...

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.

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 … ...