A total of 38,572 non-literate persons aged 15 years and above will take up the basic literacy test under the New India Literacy Programme to be held at 1,521 centres across the district here on ...

“We are creating a new generation of illiterates.” With those words, Robert Barnes, an official of the U.S. Department of Education, last week released a chilling analysis of a basic literacy test ...

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 looking at the sources,” she wrote. That sounds plausible — until you ...