Literacy is a basic human right, it is something that empowers a person and it liberates a person. That power, of being able to learn and grow and connect, I just don't think there's anything like it.

In a potential landmark ruling, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held this week that access to a basic minimum education “that can plausibly impart literacy” is a fundamental, Constitutionally ...

Dear reader, today is World Literacy Day. You know what that means don’t you? It is the day people examine themselves and seek a genuine answer to the question: how would I like to be that man or ...

Nearly one in five Fort Bend County adults struggle with basic reading proficiency, according to data from the National Center for Educational Statistics. It’s also estimated that about 13% of the ...

Barack Obama made this simple affirmation famous during the 2008 presidential race. Thanks to his campaign, we saw this slogan on posters, heard it in songs and witnessed college students chanting it ...

Caitlin Baron is the CEO of the Luminos Fund. Photo credit in this piece goes to Mekbib Tadesse for the Luminos Fund. Like many children in Ethiopia, Esayas hardly set foot in a classroom during the ...

Rennie Naidoo, professor in Information Systems at the Wits School of Business Sciences. South Africa, like many of its peers in the Global South, is awash in digital optimism. Coding bootcamps for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A friend of mine, a young mother, vented her frustration on Facebook. “In today’s day and age it’s not hard to spend a bit of time ...