Examples from workbooks that the Citizenship School teachers used to teach applicants what to expect with Alabama's literacy test when they went to register to vote. (Courtesy Veterans of Civil Rights ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 banned the use of literacy tests for voting, because the tests were being used as a tool of racial disenfranchisement. But New York is going a lot further than that — ...

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 blacks ...

Earlier this week we posted a video of a group of Harvard students taking — and failing — a 50-year-old literacy test. The 1964 Louisiana Voter Literacy Test was originally distributed to ...

At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue faculty, still not persuaded that civics illiteracy is the problem on campus that President Mitch Daniels believes it might be, on Monday slowed – even more – a plan to ...