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Even in this day and age, one American adult in seven is illiterate. Fortunately, there are ways to escape from that situation. CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts looks at some personal stories of ...

For decades, our country has been setting millions of young people up for failure. We send children to school believing they will learn to read, yet the illiteracy epidemic disrupting their education ...

An A to Z list of world problems that could be eased by being able to read is at the heart of a campaign launched in the U.K. today to promote Project Literacy, an international initiative to raise ...

I barely made it out of high school. I come from a family where reading was never encouraged. I don’t ever remember opening a book as a child. I don’t ever remember having a parent read to me. By my ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A child's ability to read is a key indicator of the likelihood they will graduate high school. Further evidence connects low ...

Liz Aronson may have been in elementary school when she realized her dream career, but the memory is still sharp in her teenage mind. She had just spent the evening dining out with her mom and was ...

Education has long been lauded as our most powerful weapon in the war on poverty, and literacy is perhaps education’s keystone. But around the world, there are some 750 million individuals who are ...