Brokers, financial advice providers, and many others need to test peoples’ ability to manage their money. Nevertheless, there are some who debate such tests arguing that they aren’t useful for ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Prospective teachers in New York State will no longer have to take the Academic Literacy Skills Test (ALST), an exam designed to measure reading and writing ability. State ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did away with literacy tests. If a person failed the test, they were not allowed to vote. Dr. Thomas Ward, professor and department of history chair at Spring Hill ...

Participants in 401(k) plans aren't smart about financial literacy, a survey from AllianceBernstein shows. Nor could most of them answer these 8 questions about finances. New research from ...

We often think literacy is the ability to read and write. But in 2025, literacy must mean more. It must include scam literacy ...

Just 31% of pre-retirees and retirees could be considered financially literate when it comes to retirement income, according to a recent study by the American College of Financial Services. But maybe ...

New York policymakers hit back Monday at critics who said a plan to eliminate a literacy test from the state's teacher certification requirements would lead to unqualified teachers in classrooms ...

A major laborers’ union with a large Hispanic immigrant membership is using an English literacy test to disqualify candidates from running for leadership positions in the union. The English competency ...

Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit, ...

The media, state and national legislators, educators, and others have all focused on the size or extent of the functional literacy problem. Very little attention has been given to those factors which ...

July 4 is always a fine time to double-check how much you know about how the U.S. government works. Local 10 partner WKMG reported that according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 878,500 ...