BOSTON – Low health literacy is a significant barrier to quality care, especially among elderly patients, but increased use of simple and effective health literacy assessment tests by nurses and ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Mackay. Followed categories will be added to My News. The pair – and their Year 9 classmates – had done some practice tests in the lead-up to yesterday's literacy ...

Eighth-grade girls scored higher than their male counterparts in the first US tests of technology and engineering literacy. The US government's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NEAP) ...

Research over the past few decades has established strong links between educational attainment and health outcomes, especially for patients with chronic disease. Arthritis studies have contributed to ...

Louisiana stopped requiring that prospective voters pass so-called literacy tests a half-century ago this summer, after the passage of the Voting Rights Act that banned the practice across the South.

HOUSTON — Voting wasn’t even an option for Black people and many other minorities in the United States until the 1963 March on Washington helped bring about radical change in this country Two years ...